Imagined lives and modernist chronotopes in Mexican nonmigrant discourse

American Ethnologist

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 275-290

  Dick, Hilary P ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronotope; Discourse; Gender and socioeconomic class; Modernity; Social positioning; Transnational migration

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952707594     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2010.01255.x     Document Type: Article

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