Fathering within and beyond the Failures of the State with Imagination, Work and Love The Case of the Mexican Father /
When Emilio López made his way to Atlanta, Georgia from México’s third most populated city, where he had grown up, worked, married and had two daughters, he was in pain. He had hurt his back in a work-related accident and was still recovering. “Es algo que no se lo deseo a nadie” [It’s something I d...
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| Language: | English |
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Rotterdam :
SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers,
2017.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2017. |
| Series: | Breakthroughs in the Sociology of Education
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-833-4 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures and Tables
- Migrating to Father, Migrating to Provide
- Defining the Problem Space
- Intimate Terrorism del Norte…y mexicana
- Intersecting Fields: Perspectives on Fathering at a Distance
- The ‘Father as Provider’ Construct
- The Father’s Contribution
- Immigrant Fathers Living with Their Children
- Transnational Fatherhood
- Child Outcomes
- The Fathers in This Study
- Learning from padres mexicanos: A Pondering of Selves
- Who Are They?
- Four Fathers en el Norte
- Cinco papás en México [Five Fathers in México]
- Theoretical Frames
- Representation and Translation
- Testimonio: Pasar la frontera
- Testimonio as Method
- Testimonio: La travesía [Testimonio: The Crossing]
- The Fathers in North Carolina: The Everyday Practice of Being an Immigrant: Sign Reading, Meta-Ideologizing, and Differential Consciousness
- Drugs in México
- Education in México
- Sign Reading
- Meta-Ideologizing
- Differential Consciousness
- Methodology of the Oppressed (MotO) as Taken up by the U.S.-Based Fathers in North Carolina
- Facing an Acute Family or Financial Crisis
- Meta-Ideology: Work as Love
- Para seguir adelante [To Keep Moving Forward, to Progress]
- Engaging Differential Consciousness to Move and Stay Ahead
- Para un mejor vivir [For a Better Life]
- Sign-Reading Both Sides of Fathering at a Distance
- Working Skillfully in the New Latino South
- Shifting Gears to Stay Employed
- Fathering without Borders: The Undocumented Mexican Male Immigrant Worker Status as Fathering
- Fathering Dispositions, Practices, and Strategies
- An Insider/Outsider in México: Welcomed as familia, Schooled as a Newcomer
- Valley Girl
- Getting There
- Héroes de la Independencia Middle School
- Secundaria Niños Héroes/Niños Heroes Middle School
- Political Economy in Person: The Fathers in México
- Lessons from the Fathers in México
- Political Economy as Lived Experience
- The Mothers and the Children: Las plegarias
- Las madres
- La plegaria de los niños
- Intimate Terrorism: The State as Assassin of Families’ Dreams and Children’s Futures
- Authorization from La Jornada
- References
- Index.