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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Caitlin FourattPublisher: Vanderbilt University Press Imprint: Vanderbilt University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.80cm Weight: 0.286kg ISBN: 9780826504364ISBN 10: 0826504361 Pages: 225 Publication Date: 15 April 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Available To Order ![]() We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsIntroduction: ""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 ReunionsReviewsFouratt'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 Author InformationCaitlin E. Fouratt is an associate professor in the Department of International Studies at California State University, Long Beach. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |