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Podcast: New Books in Latino Studies
Episode: Miroslava Chávez-GarcÃa, "Migrant Longing: Letter Writing across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands" (UNC Press, 2018)
Description: Miroslava Chávez-GarcÃa is the author of Migrant Longing: Letter Writing across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2018. Migrant Longing is a history of migration, courtship, and identity across the U.S.-Mexican border, documenting the intimate lives of ordinary migrants and immigrants. Drawing on a rare collection of more than 300 letters from her own family, Chávez-GarcÃa recounts the stories of migration, immigration, and survival across the borderlands region of the southern border.Miroslava Chávez-GarcÃa is Professor of History at the University of California at San...