Reviewed by Jeffrey H. Cohen | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 27.2

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*Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon.* By Lynn Stephen. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. xxii + 375 pp. Maps, photos, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).
Lynn Stephen's book Transborder Lives is an important addition to the literature on transnational processes and Mexican migration. This detailed testimonial-cum-ethnography of families from two indigenous Oaxacan communities (one Mixtec and the other Zapotec) should be welcomed by readers familiar with work on Mexican migration by Douglas Massey, Richard Jones, and others, as well as migration by Oaxacans (including Michael Kearney, Laura Velasco Ortiz, and this reviewer).	1
Stephen argues that the migrations of indigenous Oaxacans are marked by many crossings, including "ethnic, class, cultural, colonial and state borders" (p. 6). In chapters 1 and 2, the author describes migration for indigenous Oaxacans and elaborates on the meaning of transborders and the many crossings that are involved. She also notes how her approach builds upon seminal work in transnational studies, arguing that "we have to look beyond the national [and the immediate] in order to understand the complete nature of what people are moving or 'transing' between" (p. 23).	. . .

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