By F. Rothstein
This e-book describes and analyzes migration of people from critical Mexico to a brand new usa neighborhood in New Jersey. according to 4 many years of anthropological examine in Mazatecochco and New Jersey Rothstein lines the motives and results of migration and who lower back domestic, why, and the way go back migrants reintegrated again domestic.
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0007 Who Returns, Why, and How They Reintegrate 49 As these cases show, both international and national migration may interfere with family members’ caring for and assisting each other, but other family members usually pick up the slack. By looking at the relations in one family we can see a variety of ways that kin who are present every day care for each other. The Lara family consists of the parents, Don Julio and Doña Sofia, and their six adult children (their children and grandchildren). Five of their sons and daughters live in Mazatecochco.
Within the home, relations between women and men were relatively egalitarian with each in charge of their own sphere. Since couples lived initially when they married with the husband’s family, the father told the sons what to do and the mother told the daughters and daughters-in-law what to do. Outside the home, neither men nor women had any power or authority. Until the 1940s Mazatecochco was part of the municipality of Papalotala and subject to their authority. No one, male or female, from Mazatecochco had positions of power or authority.
Those with cars may drive to work and they drive their families to shop and occasionally to socialize. 7 Migrants also spend many hours working and do not have much time to socialize. But, San Cosmeros/as in Riverview and Connecticut do develop and maintain social networks. Although networks are always important, social networks are particularly important in difficult times such as the recent US recession. ” As di Leonardo points out, it is women who do kinwork. 0006 Life in New Jersey: Continuities and Change 35 gatherings; the creation and maintenance of quasi-kin relations; decision to neglect or to intensify particular ties; [and] the mental work of reflection about all these activities” (di Leonardo 1992:442–443).
