Making Sense of Latin America Immigrant Experiences in the United States
Author: Mummert, Gail
Date Published: 2010
This review examines five recent additions to a growing body of scholarship. The authors are scholar-activists overtly committed to bringing to public attention the everyday lives and struggles of immigrants from Mexico, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and other points south of the United States. All five books draw heavily on long-term, multisited ethnographies by researchers who spent from seven to ten years eliciting stories from migrants bound northward. Their stories deal with the (often dangerous) decisions taken and their causes; they chart the dreams and struggles of immigrants to overcome poverty, to survive with a dose of dignity, and hopefully to carve out a better life for their children.
Date Published: 2010
This review examines five recent additions to a growing body of scholarship. The authors are scholar-activists overtly committed to bringing to public attention the everyday lives and struggles of immigrants from Mexico, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and other points south of the United States. All five books draw heavily on long-term, multisited ethnographies by researchers who spent from seven to ten years eliciting stories from migrants bound northward. Their stories deal with the (often dangerous) decisions taken and their causes; they chart the dreams and struggles of immigrants to overcome poverty, to survive with a dose of dignity, and hopefully to carve out a better life for their children.
