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Author Schmalzbauer, Leah, author.

Title The last best place? : gender, family, and migration in the new West / Leah Schmalzbauer.

Publication Info. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Situating gender and migration in the new West -- Economic opportunities and gender divisions of labor -- Illegality, rurality and daily life -- Transnationalism, belonging and the rural idyll -- Doing gender : the impact of economic crisis on household dynamics -- Through the eyes of the second generation -- Hope and opportunity in the new West -- The last best place?
Summary Southwest Montana is beautiful country, evoking mythologies of freedom and escape long associated with the West. Partly because of its burgeoning presence in popular culture, film, and literature, including William Kittredge's anthology The Last Best Place, the scarcely populated region has witnessed an influx of wealthy, white migrants over the last few decades. But another, largely invisible and unstudied type of migration is also present. Though Mexican migrants have worked on Montana's ranches and farms since the 1920s, increasing numbers of migrant families-both documented and undocumente.
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Subject Migrant labor -- Montana, Western -- Social conditions.
Migrant labor.
Western Montana.
Social conditions.
Migrant labor -- Montana, Western -- Economic conditions.
Economic conditions.
Migrant laborers' families -- Montana, Western -- Social conditions.
Migrant laborers' families.
Migrant laborers' families -- Montana, Western -- Economic conditions.
Foreign workers, Mexican -- Montana, Western -- Social conditions.
Foreign workers, Mexican.
Foreign workers, Mexican -- Montana, Western -- Economic conditions.
Montana, Western -- Social conditions.
Montana, Western -- Economic conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Schmalzbauer, Leah, author. Last best place? 9780804791656 (DLC) 2014010115 (OCoLC)880237522
ISBN 9780804792974 (electronic book)
0804792976 (electronic book)
9780804791656
0804791651
9780804792936
0804792933