Ruth Trinidad Galvan

Women Who Stay Behind: Pedagogies of Survival in Rural Transmigrant Mexico Ruth Trinidad Galvan 2nd edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; The book uncovers the social, educational, and cultural tools rural Mexican women employ to creatively survive the conditions created by migration. It addresses the material conditions that lead to the migration of adults from the area, but at the core are the educational and personal endeavors of women to get ahead without the men in their families--Provided by publisher. Brief Description: "The book uncovers the social, educational, and cultural tools rural Mexican women employ to creatively survive the conditions created by migration. It addresses the material conditions that lead to the migration of adults from the area, but at the core are the educational and personal endeavors of women to get ahead without the men in their families"--Provided by publisher. Review Quotes: "Beautifully and lovingly written, this book powerfully re-visions teaching and learning as life-sustaining practices, as "supervivencia." It portrays the ordinary and extraordinary modes of nurturing community, joy, and spirituality among rural Mexican women who stay behind to make a living within the unforgiving, often devastating, processes of migration. Trinidad GalvAn's ethnography has the potential to rework notions of critical pedagogy and liberatory education with generative theory emanating from women's reflections on their work and leadership. It adds another critical feminist dimension to migration studies in dialogue with Latina/Chicana feminist thought."--Sofia Villenas, co-editor of "Chicana/Latina Education in Everyday Life: Feminista Perspectives on Pedagogy and Epistemology"Review Quotes: "Trinidad Galvan vividly documents her own" convivencia" with the women, and it is clear she engaged in a remarkable process with them, allowing her unique insights into their pedagogies."--Andrea Dyrness, author of "Mothers United: An Immigrant Struggle for Socially Just Education"Biographical Note: Ruth Trinidad GalvAn is an associate professor at the University of New Mexico in the Department of Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies. She is the co-editor of the "Handbook of Latinos and Education."Review Quotes: "Trinidad GalvAn vividly documents her own" convivencia" with the women, and it is clear she engaged in a remarkable process with them, allowing her unique insights into their pedagogies."--Andrea Dyrness, author of "Mothers United: An Immigrant Struggle for Socially Just Education"Review Quotes: "Because much of the literature examines macro- or micro-issues, Trinidad GalvAn does an amazing job of seeking out the complex relations that are created and re-created by the flow back and forth between macro-level globalization and micro-level realities."--Cinthya Saavedra, Utah State UniversityPublisher Marketing: "Women Who Stay Behind" examines the social, educational, and cultural resources rural Mexican women employ to creatively survive the conditions created by the migration of loved ones. Using narrative, research, and theory, Ruth Trinidad GalvAn presents a hopeful picture of what is traditionally viewed as the abject circumstances of poor and working-class people in Mexico who are forced to migrate to survive. The book studies women's and families' use of cultural knowledge, community activism, and teaching and learning spaces. Throughout, Trinidad GalvAn provides answers to these questions: How does the migration of loved ones alter community, familial, and gender dynamics? And what social relations ("convivencia"), cultural knowledge, and women-centered pedagogies sustain women's survival ("supervivencia")? Researchers, educators, and students interested in migration studies, gender studies, education, Latin American studies, and Mexican American studies will benefit from the ethnographic approach and theoretical insight of this groundbreaking work.