Yucatecans in Dallas, Texas

Breaching the Border, Bridging the Distance

Rachel H. Adler

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317342373
• Subtopic: Immigration Policy
• Index: Social Sciences

Through fascinating vignettes and case studies, this unique text illustrates how Yucatecan migrants actively maintain social ties across borders.  It also paints a vivid picture of the people and their lives.  It places them in the context of current U.S. immigration policy and  mesmerizes students by bringing them up to speed on one of the most crucial issues facing the U.S. today.

Index

African-Americans, Yucatecans in Dallas and, 31–32

agency, human, 2

agendas. See migrant agendas

Ainslie, Ricardo, 84

Alcorn, Lee, 31

assimilation, 127, 129–131. See also transnationalism

Balam-Ek, Eva, case study of, 70–74

Border and Immigration Enforcement Act (2005), 145–146, 148

border crossings, 126. See also migration

effects of, 53–54

“Long Live the Wetbacks” song about, 126–127

“Los Mandados” song about, 125

process of, 46–53

as “weapon of the weak,” 55–56

boundary markers, ethnic, food/music as, 63

Bracero program, 21

Brazilian migrants, 58

Bush, George W., 45, 145

Cancún, Mexico, 15–16

casa–calle distinctions, gender and, 91–94

Caste War, 11–12

Catholic Church, 22–25, 146

cattle industry, 12

celebrations, 22–25

Che, Luisa, case study of, 66–67

community affiliations, fiestas and, 60–63

Cotton, Pat, 31

“Countryman to Countryman” (song), 128

couples. See migrant couples, case studies of

couriers, Yucatecan–Dallas, 78–82

coyotes, 46–47, 50

credit associations, 62

crossings. See border crossings

Dallas, Texas. See also Yucatecans in Dallas

migration between Kaal, Yucatán and, 17–18

overview of, 28–29

racial/ethnic relations in, 29–33

Dallas Independent School District (DISD), 30

at-risk students in, 137–138

student body of, 30–31

de Gortari, Salinas, 8

Department of Homeland

Security (DHS), 143

Díaz, Porfirio, 7

domestic violence, 95–96

domestic work, 38–39, 89–91...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Foreword to the Series
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Kaal as Context
• Yucatecans in the “Big D”
• Crossing the Line: Migrants and the U.S.-Mexico Border
• Migrant Agendas and Transnationalism
• Women and Men Migrants
• Conclusion
• Epilogue
• References
• Index