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Author Berg, Ulla D., author.

Title Mobile selves : race, migration, and belonging in Peru and the U.S / Ulla D. Berg.

Publication Info. New York : New York University Press, 2015.
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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Social transformations in American anthropology
Social transformations in American anthropology.
Contents Salir Adelante : Migration, Travel, and Aspirational Economies in the Central Andes -- Paper Fixes : The Making of Mobile Subjects in Peru's Migration Industry -- Remote Sensing : Structures of Feeling in Long-Distance Communication -- Unfortunate Visibilities : The Transnational Circulation of Image-Objects -- Enframing Peruvianness : Folkloric Citizenship and Immigrant Personhood -- Phantom Citizens in El Quinto Suyo.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Mobile Selves illuminates how transnational communicative practices and forms of exchange produce new forms of kinship and social relations, as well as new forms of self-presentation and belonging for global labor migrants. It shows how migrants create new portrayals of themselves which work both to overcome the class and racial biases that they had faced in their home country, as well as to control the images they share of themselves with others back home. Migrant videos, for example, which document migrants' lives for family back home, are often sanitized to avoid causing worry. In this enga.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Peruvian Americans -- Social conditions.
Peruvian Americans.
Social conditions.
Peruvian Americans -- Ethnic identity.
Ethnicity.
Transnationalism -- Social aspects -- United States.
Transnationalism.
Social aspects.
United States.
Transnationalism -- Social aspects -- Peru.
Peru.
Race awareness -- United States.
Race awareness.
Race awareness -- Peru.
Peru -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
Emigration and immigration.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Berg, Ulla D. Mobile selves. New York : $b New York University Press, $c [2015] 9781479803460 (DLC) 2015006837 (OCoLC)893452388
ISBN 9781479863778 (electronic book)
1479863777 (electronic book)
9781479803460
1479803464

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