Overview
In The Near Northwest Side Story, Gina M. Pérez offers an intimate and unvarnished portrait of Puerto Rican life in Chicago and San Sebastian, Puerto Rico-two places connected by a long history of circulating people, ideas, goods, and information. Pérez's masterful blend of history and ethnography explores the multiple and gendered reasons for migration, why people maintain transnational connections with distant communities, and how poor and working-class Puerto Ricans work to build meaningful communities. Pérez traces the changing ways that Puerto Ricans have experienced poverty, displacement, and discrimination and illustrates how they imagine and build extended families and dense social networks that link San Sebastian to barrios in Chicago. She includes an incisive analysis of the role of the state in shaping migration through such projects as the Chardon Plan, Operation Bootstrap, and the Chicago Experiment. The Near Northwest Side Story provides a unique window on the many strategies people use to resist the negative consequences of globalization, economic development, and gentrification.
Full Product Details
Author: Gina Perez
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.408kg
ISBN: 9780520233683
ISBN 10: 0520233689
Pages: 290
Publication Date: 04 October 2004
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
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Reviews
""This is a fascinating account of transnational migration as survival strategy, one bound up in kin, region, and economic restructuring."" - Vicki L. Ruiz, author of From Out of the Shadows; ""Perez's fine work is based on intensive research in two distant but interconnected places, conducted by a perceptive and sensitive observer-participant, herself immersed in two languages, cultures, and nations."" - Jorge Duany, author of The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move""
This is a fascinating account of transnational migration as survival strategy, one bound up in kin, region, and economic restructuring. - Vicki L. Ruiz, author of From Out of the Shadows; Perez's fine work is based on intensive research in two distant but interconnected places, conducted by a perceptive and sensitive observer-participant, herself immersed in two languages, cultures, and nations. - Jorge Duany, author of The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move
Author Information
Gina M. Perez is Assistant Professor of Latina/o Studies in the Comparative American Studies Program at Oberlin College.
