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Through interviews with three generations of Yalálag Zapotecs (\"Yaláltecos\") in Los Angeles and Yalálag, Oaxaca, this book examines the impact of international migration on this community. It traces five decades of migration to Los Angeles in order to delineate migration patterns, community formation in Los Angeles, and the emergence of transnational identities of the first and second generations of Yalálag Zapotecs in the United States, exploring why these immigrants and their descendents now think of themselves as Mexican, Mexican Indian immigrants, Oaxaqueños, and Latinos-identities they did not claim in Mexico.Based on multi-site fieldwork conducted over a five-year period, Adriana Cruz-Manjarrez analyzes how and why Yalálag Zapotec identity and culture have been reconfigured in the United States, using such cultural practices as music, dance, and religious rituals as a lens to bring this dynamic process into focus. By illustrating the sociocultural, economic, and political practices that link immigrants in Los Angeles to those left behind, the book documents how transnational migration has reflected, shaped, and transformed these practices in both their place of origin and immigration.

From Chicago to L.A. begins the task of defining an alternative agenda for urban studies and examines the case for shifting the focus of urban studies from Chicago to Los Angeles. The authors, experienced scholars from a variety of disciplines, examine: The concepts that have blocked our understanding of Southern California cities The imaginative structures that people have been using to understand and explain Los Angeles The utility of the "Los Angeles School" of urbanism

The creation of \"international families\" is just one of many changes being brought about by the process of \"globalization.\" For scholars of international migration there are important substantive and methodological lessons to be learned from a study of that process. Rather than treating migration as a linear, uni-directional flow, attention needs to be directed at the circular movements of populations. This article addresses Caribbean migration specifically, and focuses on the case of Afro-Trinidadian immigrants in Los Angeles. Because kinship lies at the heart of Caribbean social life both at home and abroad, the \"recycling\" behavior of Caribbean migrants has brought into existence \"international families,\" new forms of kinship that call for rethinking what we mean by \"family.\" \"International families\" operate on the principle of networks rather than households, and are given form and content by women. Women figure prominently not only in Caribbean migration, but in the creation and maintenance of these \"international families\" through a system of informal adoption (\"child-minding\") which is a long-standing Caribbean tradition. Because these social relationships are expressed in the idiom of networks, the author argues the case for network analysis as a method sufficiently flexible to capture the spirit of these movements of people.