Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

8-20-2002

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Abstract

Globalization and the transnational networks established by economic integration have produced a context in which the gathering of knowledge about Latina/o and Latin American communities is largely devoid of any processual perspective. This means that we must construct an alternative methodology to capture the international and transnational social fields and arenas of this multinational population. Nowhere does this type of dialogue appear more necessary than in studies of immigration from Latin America to the United States. In particular, we maintain that the integration of Latin American and Latina/o studies requires viewing these new waves of migrants as part of a synchronic flow of capital, goods, and resources back and forth between the United States and their countries of origin. We have shown in our discussion of remittances that multiple levels of economic dependency result.

Chapter of

Transnational Latina/o Communities: Politics, Processes, Cultures

Editor

Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez
Anna Sampaio

Comments

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