Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants

“Robert Courtney Smith’s “Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants” is ethnography of a Mexican community living and establishing itself in the Big Apple that focuses on the transnational experiences of two generations of Mexican migrants. The modern term “transnationalism” paves the way to understanding how such migrant communities live multiple experiences in the U.S., striving to maintain and forced to “renegotiate” their U.S. identity and Mexican nationalism.

Prof. Robert Courtney Smith of the City University of New York studied for two decades this New York Mexican community’s relationship and experience with its native hometown of Ticuani””a small town in the southern Mexican state of Puebla””while living and working in New York City. Smith does a great job analyzing and comparing the first-wave of migrants from Ticuani with the second generation.”

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