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The &ldquoMormon; Colonies” in Chihuahua, northern Mexico, boast a sizable population of women originally from the United States who have immigrated to these small Mexican towns. This ethnographic study of the immigrant women in the area focuses on questions of citizenship and belonging, and bolsters the scholarship on U.S. American immigrants in Mexico. Using data from 15 unstructured interviews, the women&rsquos; experiences of migration provide a portrait of U.S. American immigrants in a Mexican religious community. Analysis of this data using grounded theory has revealed that these U.S. American women have created a third social space for themselves, to a large degree retaining their original culture, language, and political loyalty. Their stories contribute to the literature on transnational migration, providing an account of the way migrants of privilege interact with their society of settlement.
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- I will always be an American living in Mexico: women of the Mormon colonies
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- Nielsen, Vanessa (Author)
- Mean, Lindsey (Thesis advisor)
- Téllez, Michelle (Committee member)
- Gruber, Diane (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
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2013
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- thesisPartial requirement for: M.A., Arizona State University, 2013
- bibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (p. 86-89)
- Field of study: Communication studies
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by Vanessa Nielsen