Beyond the Borderlands
Debra Lattanzi Shutika
in the United States and Mexico
Since the 1990s, migration from Mexico to the United States has moved beyond the borderlands to diverse communities across the country, with the most striking transformations in American suburbs and small towns. This study explores the challenges encountered by Mexican families as they endeavor to find their place in the U.S. by focusing on Kennett Square, a small farming village in Pennsylvania known as the "Mushroom Capital of the World." read more
In a highly readable account based on extensive fieldwork among Mexican migrants and
their American neighbors, Beyond the Borderlands explores the issues of belonging and displacement that are central concerns for residents in communities that have become new destinations for Mexican settlement. Beyond the Borderlands also completes the circle of migration by following migrant families as they return to their hometown in Mexico, providing an illuminating perspective of the tenuous lives of Mexicans residing in, but not fully part of, two worlds.
Beyond the Borderlands. a new ethnography by Debra Lattanzi Shutika
Migration and Belonging
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