Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Latinos in Chicago and Midwest
ISBN-10
0252088662
ISBN-13
9780252088667
Edition
New
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Imprint
University of Illinois Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 20th, 2025
Print length
216 Pages
Weight
306 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 15.20 x 1.40 cms
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Migrants from the Mexican states of Zacatecas, Guanajuato, Jalisco, and Michoacán have become an important presence in Chicago and the Midwest. Many hold jobs as yarderos gardening, caring for lawns, and doing other landscaping work. Sergio Lemus explores the lives of these migrants and looks at the struggles they face as they work to make the city their home. Drawing on fieldwork in South Chicago, Lemus tells the stories of first and second-generation yarderos and discusses the historical, economic, cultural, and political ramifications they face as they acquire their working-class identity. Lemus’s compassionate portrait places them within America’s ongoing tradition as a nation of immigrants while analyzing their place within today’s transborder cultural moment. Perceptive and humane, Los Yarderos reveals how a group of Mexican immigrants navigates the crossings of the borders that divide class, color hierarchies, gender, and belonging.
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