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What remittances can't buy
| Title: | What remittances can't buy: the social costs of migration and transnational gossip on women in Jacaltenango, Guatemala. |
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| Name(s): |
Sabbagh, Jocelyn. Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Thesis | |
| Issuance: | multipart monograph | |
| Date Issued: | 2007 | |
| Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
| Physical Form: |
electronic electronic resource |
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| Extent: | vi, 50 leaves. | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Summary: | The academic debate on gender and migration has missed some of the key factors that impact women's lives and communities of origin. Interviews conducted in Jacaltenango, a Mayan sending community in Guatemala, suggest that while the migration of a spouse does bring substantial financial benefits there are significant individual and social costs that result from migration. More importantly, the interviews uncovered the crucial impact of transnational gossip on women's lives, a feature that has been absent in previous academic treatments of gender and migration. Transnational gossip has exacerbated the negative effects of migration for women in migrant-sending locations, pushing women to stay in the "private sphere" and serving as a form of social control that keeps women from actively participating in their communities. For many women, long periods of time living apart from their spouses combined with fears about transnational gossip have brought severe loneliness, anxiety, health problems and even seclusion. This phenomenon is helping define the contemporary social structures of Jacaltenango, and represents one of the most important effects of migration in terms of the lived reality of spouses and families of the predominantly male immigrants who leave Mayan communities in Guatemala to seek work in the United States. | |
| Identifier: | 314387266 (oclc), 11603 (digitool), FADT11603 (IID), fau:1335 (fedora) | |
| Note(s): |
by Jocelyn Sabbagh. Thesis (B.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, Honors College, 2007. Bibliography: leaves 48-50. Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2007. Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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| Subject(s): |
Women heads of households -- Guatemala -- Jacaltenango Guatemalans -- Florida Family -- Guatemala United States -- Emigration and immigration Guatemala -- Social life and customs |
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| Held by: | FBoU FAUER | |
| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/11603 | |
| Use and Reproduction: | Copyright © is held by the author, with permission granted to Florida Atlantic University to digitize, archive and distribute this item for non-profit research and educational purposes. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions requires permission of the copyright holder. | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
