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Gender & Society, Vol. 11, No. 5, 597-626 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/089124397011005005

"A CHAMBERED NAUTILUS"

The Contradictory Nature of Puerto Rican Women's Role in the Social Construction of a Transnational Community

MARIXSA ALICEA

DePaul University

Recent transnational migration literature does not sufficiently explore women's role in the development of transnational communities. By analyzing 30 interviews with Puerto Rican migrant and return migrant women, the author shows that women, through subsistence production, play a significant role in the social construction of transnational communities. By using a transnational perspective and placing migrant women's subsistence work and its contradictory nature at the center of her analysis, the author challenges studies that assume that maintaining ties to homelands leads to freedom for all family members, moves away from home/host binary frame works of immigrant women's experiences that locate greater gender oppression in home countries and more freedom in host societies, and explores women's complex perceptions of home.


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