Making Los Angeles Home

Integration and the struggle to turn space into “our” place: Homemaking as a way beyond the stalemate of assimilationism vs transnationalism

“…Only those who could afford the cost of travel and met the legal status requirements of border crossing did return occasionally for family events such as a wedding, or a funeral. This is no isolated case, as research has noticed a trend of declining transnational circulation and increasing permanent settlement in a variety of contexts (Alarcon et al 2016; Jones, 2019; Waldinger, 2015).…”