Life along the Nafta Highway

Transnational Living Strategies on the US/Mexico Border

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3877981
AutoresMaribel 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, autor correspondente)
Ano2006
Volume18
Fascículo2
Páginas139-161
Data de publicação2006-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCultural Dynamics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0921-3740 • E-ISSN: 1461-7048
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0921374006066696
OpenAlexW2033993971
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas24

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