Mobile Selves: Race, Migration, and Belonging in Peru and the U.S.
New York; London: New York University Press, paperback ed. (2017), xv, 304 pp.
Contains illustrations, index
Series: Social Transformations in American Anthropology
ISBN 978-1-4798-7570-2
Other editions: hardcover ed. 2015; Spanish ed.: Sujetos móviles: raza, migración y pertenencia en el Perú y los Estados Unidos. Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP), 2016, 343 p. (Urbanización, migraciones y cambios en la sociedad Peruana; 27)
"Berg examines the conditions under which Peruvians of rural and working-class origins leave the central highlands to migrate to the United States. Migrants often create new portrayals of themselves to overcome the class and racial biases that they had faced in their home country, as well as to control the images they share of themselves with others back home. Migrant videos, for example, which document migrants’ lives for family back home, are often sanitized to avoid causing worry." (Publisher description)
Introduction, 1
PART I. COSMOPOLITAN DESIRES
1 Salir Adelante: Migration, Travel, and Aspirational Economies in the Central Andes, 43
2 Paper Fixes: The Making of Mobile Subjects in Peru's Migration Industry, 73
PART II. TRANSNATIONAL SOCIALITIES
3 Remote Sensing: Structures of Feeling in Long-Distance Communication, 105
4 Unfortunate Visibilities: The Transnational Circulation of Image-Objects, 141
PART III. DISCREPANT PUBLICS
5 Enframing Peruvianness: Folkloric Citizenship and Immigrant Personhood, 177
6 Phantom Citizens in El Quinto Suyo, 209
Conclusions, 231
PART I. COSMOPOLITAN DESIRES
1 Salir Adelante: Migration, Travel, and Aspirational Economies in the Central Andes, 43
2 Paper Fixes: The Making of Mobile Subjects in Peru's Migration Industry, 73
PART II. TRANSNATIONAL SOCIALITIES
3 Remote Sensing: Structures of Feeling in Long-Distance Communication, 105
4 Unfortunate Visibilities: The Transnational Circulation of Image-Objects, 141
PART III. DISCREPANT PUBLICS
5 Enframing Peruvianness: Folkloric Citizenship and Immigrant Personhood, 177
6 Phantom Citizens in El Quinto Suyo, 209
Conclusions, 231
