{"id":1064,"date":"2017-02-27T16:11:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T22:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2017-02-27T16:35:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T22:35:54","slug":"sergio-chavez-on-border-lives-and-transnationalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/2017\/02\/27\/sergio-chavez-on-border-lives-and-transnationalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Sergio Ch\u00e1vez on Border Lives and Transnationalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the election of Donald Trump, much has been made about the construction of barriers to entry along the US border with Mexico.\u00a0But while Trump has placed particular emphasis on the image of a wall designed to limit\u00a0illegal movement\u00a0across this border, thousands of workers travel lawfully from cities like Tijuana into the US \u2014 and back again \u2014 every day. In today\u2019s episode, I talk with Rice University\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sociology.rice.edu\/chavez\/\">Sergio Ch\u00e1vez<\/a>\u00a0about his new book <a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/border-lives-9780199380589?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;\">Border Lives: Fronterizos, Transnational Migrants, and Commuters in Tijuana,<\/a> an ethnographic product of many years spent traveling (and waiting to travel) across the border with commuting workers. Dr. Ch\u00e1vez describes the incredible strain that border controls and bureaucracies place on low wage workers, but he also provides a remarkable account of the way that many workers leverage these difficulties into relationships and livelihood strategies. We also explore the implications of his findings for a relatively new approach to the scholarship on immigration, which social scientists call <em>transnationalism<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/files.thesocietypages.org\/downloads\/OH130_Chavez.mp3\">Download Office Hours #130<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the election of Donald Trump, much has been made about the construction of barriers to entry along the US border with Mexico.\u00a0But while Trump has placed particular emphasis on the image of a wall designed to limit\u00a0illegal movement\u00a0across this border, thousands of workers travel lawfully from cities like Tijuana into the US \u2014 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1993,"featured_media":1065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[716],"tags":[89,13,85],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-immigration","tag-inequality","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/files\/2017\/02\/9780199380589.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1993"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1070,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions\/1070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}