Review of Beyond the Borderlands: Migration and Belonging in the United States and Mexico by Debra Lattanzi Shutika
Autor | Laura Vásquez Roa |
Cargo | Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (Germany) |
Páginas | 231-239 |
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Review of Beyond the Borderlands: Migration and
Belonging in the United States and Mexico by Debra
Lattanzi Shutika
Laura Vásquez Roa
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (Germany)
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7440/colombiaint88.2016.10
Beyond the Borderlands: Migration and Belonging in the United States and Mexico,
published by University of California Press in , examines one community of
immigrants in their transnational life between Mexico and the United States. e
author, Debra Lattanzi Shutika, is a folklorist and Associate Professor of English
at George Mason University (United States). Her academic interests are mainly
related to transnational migration, ethnicity, Latino folklore, and the intersection
of space and locality in transnational contexts.
In this book the author explores the livelihood of a group of Mexican
settlers in Kennett Square, a small town in the north of the United States that
represents one of the so-called “new destinations” for immigration. She also
provides an interesting reection on the issues of immigration and integration
in the United States. is is done through the examination of concepts like sense
of place and sense of belonging. Discussions in this work are not only relevant
for researchers interested in the topic of Mexican migration, but also for those
interested in cultural integration, new destinations for migrants in the U.S.,
cultural geography, and spatiality in terms of transnational movements.
Beyond the Borderlands provides an interesting consideration of the
idea of border. Here border is not something that is xed, but rather something
that is exible. us, no matter how far these Mexican workers are from the
geographical border, they, and the native population, experience the border in
many dierent places in the receiving country. is notion of border is linked
to the understanding that professor Shutika presents about place in her book.
1 George Mason Universit y. Retrieved Dec ember 11, 2015, URL: http://englis h.gmu.edu/people /
dshutik a
2 e author uses dierent term s to refer to the native population in the Un ited States, some of
them are: native E nglish-spe aking popu lation, native-b orn population, maj ority populat ion,
American-bor n population.
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