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CHAPTER 6 Aurelia: Displacement, Toxicity, and the Struggle for Home

  • Maricarmen Hernández
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Portraits of Persistence
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. INTRODUCTION 1
  4. CHAPTER 1 Soraya: La Reina del Sur in Nicaragua 21
  5. CHAPTER 2 Maíra: Mothering in the Shadow of State Violence 39
  6. CHAPTER 3 Rodrigo: “Many Secrets, Nothing to Hide”—Security Entrepreneurship in Mexico City 59
  7. CHAPTER 4 Fabio and Angélica: The Resistance of Staying Put 82
  8. CHAPTER 5 Doris Huaiquian: Newen, Tenacity of Spirit 104
  9. CHAPTER 6 Aurelia: Displacement, Toxicity, and the Struggle for Home 124
  10. CHAPTER 7 Hamid: A Life Deferred in Brazil 145
  11. CHAPTER 8 María: Obligated by Circumstances—From Temporary to Precariously Permanent in the United States 163
  12. CHAPTER 9 Ezequiel: A Laburante in Argentina’s Relegated Neighborhoods 185
  13. CHAPTER 10 Nelson and Celia: Feeling Potholes and Debt in the Bones 205
  14. CHAPTER 11 Big Love: A Political Broker at Work 225
  15. CHAPTER 12 Alberto: Service Work and Social Change in Argentina 243
  16. AFTERWORD 263
  17. Acknowledgments 266
  18. Contributors 267
  19. Index 270
https://doi.org/10.7560/328989-007

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. INTRODUCTION 1
  4. CHAPTER 1 Soraya: La Reina del Sur in Nicaragua 21
  5. CHAPTER 2 Maíra: Mothering in the Shadow of State Violence 39
  6. CHAPTER 3 Rodrigo: “Many Secrets, Nothing to Hide”—Security Entrepreneurship in Mexico City 59
  7. CHAPTER 4 Fabio and Angélica: The Resistance of Staying Put 82
  8. CHAPTER 5 Doris Huaiquian: Newen, Tenacity of Spirit 104
  9. CHAPTER 6 Aurelia: Displacement, Toxicity, and the Struggle for Home 124
  10. CHAPTER 7 Hamid: A Life Deferred in Brazil 145
  11. CHAPTER 8 María: Obligated by Circumstances—From Temporary to Precariously Permanent in the United States 163
  12. CHAPTER 9 Ezequiel: A Laburante in Argentina’s Relegated Neighborhoods 185
  13. CHAPTER 10 Nelson and Celia: Feeling Potholes and Debt in the Bones 205
  14. CHAPTER 11 Big Love: A Political Broker at Work 225
  15. CHAPTER 12 Alberto: Service Work and Social Change in Argentina 243
  16. AFTERWORD 263
  17. Acknowledgments 266
  18. Contributors 267
  19. Index 270
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