The Near Northwest Side Story: Migration, Displacement, and Puerto Rican Families (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520233683)

In The Near Northwest Side Story, Gina M. P駻ez offers an intimate and unvarnished portrait of Puerto Rican life in Chicago and San Sebastian, Puerto Rico-two places connected by a long history of circulating people, ideas, goods, and information. P駻ez's masterful blend of history and ethnography explores the multiple and gendered reasons for migration, why people maintain transnational connections with distant communities, and how poor and working-class Puerto Ricans work to build meaningful communities.

P駻ez traces the changing ways that Puerto Ricans have experienced poverty, displacement, and discrimination and illustrates how they imagine and build extended families and dense social networks that link San Sebastian to barrios in Chicago. She includes an incisive analysis of the role of the state in shaping migration through such projects as the Chardon Plan, Operation Bootstrap, and the Chicago Experiment. The Near Northwest Side Story provides a unique window on the many strategies people use to resist the negative consequences of globalization, economic development, and gentrification.

Author: Gina Perez
ISBN-10: 0520233689
ISBN-13: 9780520233683
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 10/04/2004
Pages: 276
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.02w x 0.72d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2005 pg. 1675