8. The Last Best Place?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. 1. Situating Gender and Migration in the New West 1
5. 2. Economic Opportunities and Gender Divisions of Labor 22
6. 3. Illegality, Rurality and Daily Life 46
7. 4. Transnationalism, Belonging and the Rural Idyll 75
8. 5. Doing Gender: The Impact of Economic Crisis on Household Dynamics 94
9. 6. Through the Eyes of the Second Generation 112
10. 7. Hope and Opportunity in the New West 143
11. 8. The Last Best Place? 163
12. Notes 179
13. References 185
14. Index 199