Beyond the Borderlands: Migration and Belonging in the United States and Mexico

Abstract

[...]the townspeople of kennett Square seek to affirm their reputation as a pro- gressive community while maintaining their cultural dominance in an emerging mexican population. throughout the book, lattanzi Shutika attempts to answer how these negotia- tions are reconciled. lattanzi Shutika's access to the mexican populations in Pennsylvania and mexico pro- vide a compelling ethnographic portrait of mexican migrants living within the context of dual countries. in the book's introduction, the author describes how a short term research project evolved into a 10-year study that spanned two nations, resulting in a comprehen- sive study of mexican migrants who leave fam- ily and friends in mexico to pursue a better fi- nancial future in the community of kennett Square, Pennsylvania. chapter 2, "'i give thanks to God, after that, the united States': everyday life in textitlan," uses historical data and statistics to provide a demographic profile of the textitlan popula- tion. lattanzi Shutika also provides readers with valuable personal observations of the living conditions in textitlan.