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  • Los Yarderos – Mexican Yard Workers in Transborder Chicago: Mexican Yard Workers in Transborder Chicago

    Los Yarderos – Mexican Yard Workers in Transborder Chicago by Lemus, Sergio;

    Mexican Yard Workers in Transborder Chicago

    Series: Latinos in Chicago and Midwest;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1
    • Publisher MO – University of Illinois Press
    • Date of Publication 29 October 2025
    • Number of Volumes Hardback

    • ISBN 9780252046551
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages216 pages
    • Size 229x152x15 mm
    • Weight 454 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 12 black & white photographs, 2 maps
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    Long description:

    Migrants from the Mexican states of Zacatecas, Guanajuato, Jalisco, and MichoacÁn have become an important presence in Chicago and the Midwest. Many hold jobs as yarderos gardening, caring for lawns, and doing other landscaping work.

    Sergio Lemus explores the lives of these migrants and looks at the struggles they face as they work to make the city their home. Drawing on fieldwork in South Chicago, Lemus tells the stories of first and second-generation yarderos and discusses the historical, economic, cultural, and political ramifications they face as they acquire their working-class identity. Lemus’s compassionate portrait places them within America’s ongoing tradition as a nation of immigrants while analyzing their place within today’s transborder cultural moment.

    Perceptive and humane, Los Yarderos reveals how a group of Mexican immigrants navigates the crossings of the borders that divide class, color hierarchies, gender, and belonging.

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