Procreando Ciudadanos : Trabajadoras Mexicanas Indocumentadas Residentes en California (1). Procreando Ciudadanos : Trabajadoras Mexicanas Indocumentadas Residentes en California (1).

Procreando Ciudadanos : Trabajadoras Mexicanas Indocumentadas Residentes en California (1)‪.‬

Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 2004, Jan-July, 29, 57-58

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Resumen. La migracion mexicana a los Estados Unidos conlleva no solo el cruce de fronteras geograficas, sino la insercion en una estructura de poder en una posicion subordinada, que define a esta poblacion en una condicion de vulnerabilidad estructural y cultural (Bustamante 2001). Sostengo que que tal condicion adquiere matices particulares en el caso de las mujeres debido a sus capacidades procreativas, al reconocimiento que hace el estado de estas potencialidades y a la "naturalizacion" del ejercicio social de la maternidad. Este trabajo esta dedicado a poner en evidencia la ambiguedad que define la condicion de las indocumentadas mexicanas al convertirse en madres en el vecino pais. Se fundamenta en relatos de indocumentadas residentes en California y en informacion recabada en la localidad de origen, un pueblo campesino de raiz nahua, ubicado en el centro del estado de Puebla. Abstract. Mexican migration to the United States involves not only the crossing of geographic borders, but also the insertion of migrants into a power structure in a subordinate position that defines this population in terms of its condition of structural and cultural vulnerability (Bustamante 2001). I argue that this condition takes on a particular pattern in the case of women because of their procreative capacity, the state's recognition of this potential, and the "naturalization" of the social function of maternity. This work examines the ambiguity that defines the condition of undocumented Mexican women who become mothers in the United States. It is based on testimony of undocumented residents in California and on information gathered in the sending community, a nahua peasant village in the center of the state of Puebla.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2004
January 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
38
Pages
PUBLISHER
Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
SELLER
The Gale Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation and an affiliate of Cengage Learning, Inc.
SIZE
254.1
KB

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