An ethnographic classic and the best ethnography of migration that I have everread.Roger Waldinger coauthor of How the Other Half WorksA compelling multidimensi... » 

An ethnographic classic and the best ethnography of migration that I have everread.Roger Waldinger coauthor of How the Other Half WorksA compelling multidimensional portrait of Mexicans in New York. Smithauthoritatively examines in considerable detail and with convincingethnographic evidence how immigration patterns have drastically changed overthe last 15 years creating a group of transnational migrants.FranciscoLomeli author of U.S. Latino Literatures and CulturesMany observers of American migration have noticed the increasing formation oftransnational communities instead of oneway transfers from old country to new.In his warm perceptive richly documented study of a Mexican town its NewYork counterpart and the connections between them however Robert Smith haslived chronicled and reinterpreted the human experience of transnationalism.He shows us how individual and collective transformations interact producingsurprising new varieties of social life.Charles Tilly author of DurableInequalityStudying local processes over an extended period of time has allowed Smith tomake a major theoretical and methodological contribution to our understandingof the migration experience. Smith brilliantly succeeds in detecting as yetunrecognized dynamics in the increasingly complex and multisited character ofmigration.Saskia Sassen author of Guests and AliensIn this essential book Robert Courtney Smith provides insight on New YorkCity in a new and important way. After years of research and observation Smithdocuments a world through the eyes of the citys growing Mexican population.Smiths crucial points about immigrationand transnational identity makecompelling reading because of the sense of joy in his writing at being so closeto a community that is redefining the American immigrant experience.DeborahAmos Correspondent National Public RadioThe big contributions in ethnography c «