{"product_id":"intimate-migrations-deborah-a-boehm-9780814789834","title":"Intimate Migrations: Gender, Family, and Illegality Among Transnational Mexicans","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn her research with transnational Mexicans, Deborah A. Boehm has often asked individuals: if there were no barriers to your movement between Mexico and the United States, where would you choose to live? Almost always, they desire the freedom to \"come and go.\" Yet the barriers preventing such movement are many. Because of the United States' rigid immigration policies, Mexican immigrants often find themselves living long distances from family members and unable to easily cross the U.S.-Mexico border. Transnational Mexicans experience what Boehm calls \"intimate migrations,\" flows that both shape and are structured by gendered and familial actions and interactions, but are always defined by the presence of the U.S. state. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIntimate Migrations is based on over a decade of ethnographic research, focusing on Mexican immigrants with ties to a small, rural community in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí and several states in the U.S. West. By showing how intimate relations direct migration, and by looking at kin and gender relationships through the lens of illegality, Boehm sheds new light on the study of gender and kinship, as well as understandings of the state and transnational migration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Deborah A. Boehm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814789838\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814789834\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/23\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2012","brand":"Deborah A. Boehm","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086926983423,"sku":"9780814789834","price":107.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fabe1485-80ab-4e54-8929-40b412ceee0a.jpg?v=1769097328","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/intimate-migrations-deborah-a-boehm-9780814789834","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}