Author: Levitt, Peggy
Title: The Transnational Villagers
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (2001). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xiii,281 pp. Textual maps& tables.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Study of emigrants from Miraflores, Dominican Republic in Boston, Massachusetts. Contents: The Historical Context; Social Remittances: How Global Culture is Created Locally; Reshaping the Stages of the Life Cycle; Making Values from Two Worlds Fit; When Domestic Politics Becomes Transnational; "God Is Everywhere": Religious Life Across Borders; Transnationalizing Community Development.

Keywords: Labor Sociology, Miraflores, Dominican Republic, Hispanic Immigrants, Immigration, Remittances, Immigrant, United States, Anthropology