Flexible Families: Nicaraguan Transnational Families in Costa Rica

Author:   Caitlin Fouratt
Publisher:   Vanderbilt University Press
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9780826504364


Pages:   225
Publication Date:   15 April 2022
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Caitlin Fouratt
Publisher:   Vanderbilt University Press
Imprint:   Vanderbilt University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.286kg
ISBN:  

9780826504364


ISBN 10:   0826504361
Pages:   225
Publication Date:   15 April 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction: ""The Family Is a Little Society"" 1. State, Family, and Solidarity in the Nicaraguan Nation 2. Locked Up and Waiting 3. Absent Fathers and Single Mothers 4. Reconfiguring Relationships across Borders 5. Mamitas: Grandmother Caregivers and Extended Family Households 6. ""I eat all my money here"": Remittances in Transnational Family Life 7. Returns and Reunions

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Fouratt's insights on the importance of flexibility in working-class Nicaraguan families are a critical contribution to our understandings of migration and kinship. --Ruth Gomberg-Munoz, author of Labor and Legality: An Ethnography of a Mexican Immigrant Network This book is a fantastic addition to the international migration scholarship. It is accessible and easy to read, engaging, yet theoretically nuanced and methodologically sound. The journeys through which [Fouratt] takes the reader--across countries, levels of analysis, and time--give a sense of the movement in time and space of Nicaraguan migrant families. --Leila Rodriguez, editor of Culture as Judicial Evidence: Expert Testimony in Latin America


Fouratt's insights on the importance of flexibility in working-class Nicaraguan families is a critical contribution to our understandings of migration and kinship. --Ruth Gomberg-Munoz, author of Labor and Legality: An Ethnography of a Mexican Immigrant Network This book is a fantastic addition to the international migration scholarship. It is accessible and easy to read, engaging, yet theoretically nuanced and methodologically sound. The journeys through which [Fouratt] takes the reader--across countries, levels of analysis, and time--gives a sense of the movement in time and space of Nicaraguan migrant families. --Leila Rodriguez, editor of Culture as Judicial Evidence: Expert Testimony in Latin America


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Caitlin E. Fouratt is an associate professor in the Department of International Studies at California State University, Long Beach.

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