The envios of San Pablo Huixtepec, Oaxaca: Food, home, and transnationalism

Human Organization

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 400-406

  Grieshop, James I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural capital; Cultural remittances; Entrepreneurship; Envios; Food; Mexico; Migration; Oaxaca; Transnational migration

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL IDENTITY; ENTREPRENEUR; IMMIGRANT; IMMIGRATION; REMITTANCE;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; OAXACA;

EID: 33846827006     PISSN: 00187259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17730/humo.65.4.78567leyp6rtd2mc     Document Type: Article

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