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Migration-Trust Networks: Violence and Turmoil in Reconstruction Texas, 1865-1874: Social Cohesion in Mexican US-Bound Emigration
Author(s): Nadia Yamel Flores-Yeffal (Author)
- Publisher: Texas A & M University Press
- Publication Date: 30 May 2013
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 1603448268
- ISBN-13: 9781603448260
Book Description
Revealing the complexities behind social networks of international migration,
Migration-Trust Networks: Social Cohesion in Mexican US-Bound Emigration provides an empirical and theoretical analysis of how social networks of international migration operate in the transnational context. Further, the book clarifies how networking creates chain migration effects observable throughout history.Flores-Yeffal’s study extends existing social network theories, providing a more detailed description of the social micro- and macrodynamics underlying the development and expansion of social networks used by undocumented Mexicans to migrate and integrate within the United States, with trust relationships as the basis of those networks. In addition, it incorporates a transnational approach in which the migrant’s place of origin, whether rural or urban, becomes an important variable.
Migration-Trust Networks encapsulates the new realities of undocumented migration from Latin America and contributes to the academic discourse on international migration, advancing the study of social networks of migration and of social networks in general.Editorial Reviews
Review
“This book addresses a timely and important aspect of international migration, namely the conditions that generate social support and assistance between migrants. It fits squarely within an important vein of sociological research on networks and solidarity, as well as immigrant adaption.”–Emilio A. Parrado, professor, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
–Emilio A. Parrado (7/6/2012 12:00:00 AM)
“This book makes a genuine contribution to the field of international migration by demonstrating the importance of community of origin in the regulation of social networks. Migration-Trust Networks offers a narrative that is especially powerful given the author’s personal connection to the story and the rich quotations included.”–Jacqueline Maria Hagan, Robert G. Parr Distinguished Term Professor, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
–Jacqueline Maria Hagan (8/3/2012 12:00:00 AM)
“This is an important and timely topic of general interest to sociologists and is of special interest to immigration and migration specialists.”–David P. Lindstrom, professor, Department of Sociology, Brown University
–David Lindstrom (8/1/2012 12:00:00 AM)
“Nadia Flores-Yeffal offers a brilliant analysis of migrant networks that unpacks the black box of social capital to reveal the interpersonal dynamics that spurred so much Mexican migration to the United States over the past two decades. It is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand immigration in the world today.”–Douglas S. Massey, professor of sociology, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, and adjunct professor of sociology, University of Pennsylvania
–Douglas S. Massey (1/7/2013 12:00:00 AM)
“This book addresses a timely and important aspect of international migration, namely the conditions that generate social support and assistance between migrants. It fits squarely within an important vein of sociological research on networks and solidarity, as well as immigrant adaption.”–Emilio A. Parrado, professor, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
