Life along the Nafta Highway
Transnational Living Strategies on the US/Mexico Border
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3877981 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maribel García Gràcia (0000-0001-6521-0437, California State University, San Marcos), Maribel Garcia, Maribel Cárdenas-García (0000-0003-3404-8806, California State University, San Marcos, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 139-161 |
| Publication date | 2006-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Dynamics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0921-3740 • E-ISSN: 1461-7048 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0921374006066696 |
| OpenAlex | W2033993971 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 24 |
This article examines the transnational living strategies utilized by women on the US/Mexico border while critically exploring the contradictory coexistence of successful transnational corridors, such as the NAFTA highway, and the poor residents who live alongside them. The article focuses on the transnational living strategies they use in order to improve their living conditions in Starr County, Texas. The author argues that transmigrant women and their families use migration and settlement in the Lower Rio Grande Valley as a way of improving their standard of living. However, the contradiction is that they end up living in an area known for its poor living conditions and high unemployment rates.This article is an ethnographic study of the ways in which women and their families negotiate poverty in a poor, rural border community while also showing how a poor and rural border area can both exacerbate and alleviate woman's poverty
Contradiction · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnography · Negotiation · Political science · Poverty · Rural area · Sociology · Standard of living · Unemployment · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
Feminist methods in social research
Latin Journey
Chicana Feminist Thought
Gendered Transitions
Mexican Migration to the United States
Laboring in ''borderless'' world
History and Trends in U.S. Bound Migration from a Mexican Town
History and Trends in U.S. Bound Migration from a Mexican Town
Economic Support from and to Extended Kin
Chicana Voices
Women on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Colonia' Land and Housing Market Performance and the Impact of Lot Title Regularisation in Texas
Under Western Eyes
Kinship Ties of Mexican Migrant Women on the United States/Mexico Border
Adopting Transnationalism Theory and Discourse
Feminist Theory
A Town Divided
Confronting Anthropology's Silencing Praxis
Overcoming Patriarchal Constraints
In Pursuit of Latina Liberation
The Complexity of Intersectionality
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2022 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |