Pressing Onward: The Imperative Resilience of Latina Migrant Mothers

Pressing Onward: The Imperative Resilience of Latina Migrant Mothers
ISBN-10
0520394003
ISBN-13
9780520394001
Category
Latin Americans
Pages
244
Language
English
Published
2023
Publisher
Univ of California Press
Author
Jessica P. Cerdeña

Description

"Pressing Onward narrates the lives of mothers who migrated from Latin America and settled in New Haven, Connecticut, overcoming trauma and ongoing adversity to build futures for their children. By enacting imperative resilience, migrant mothers engage cognitive and social strategies to resist racial, economic, and gender-based oppression to seguir adelante, or push onward. Both a contemporary view of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on racially minoritized populations and a timeless account of the ways immigration enforcement and healthcare inequality affect migrant mothers, Pressing Onward uses ethnography to tell a greater story of persistence amid longstanding structural violence"--

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