Striving and Surviving

Drawing on data the author gathered in Honduras and the United States from weekly time diaries in-depth interviews participant observation and interpretive focus groups she looks specifically at the experience and prospects of transmigrant labor in the United States; the aspirations and consumption practices of transnational family members in the United States and Honduras especially as the relate to the American Dream; and she explores the ways in which families negotiate caretaking responsibilities both financial and emotional while striving and surviving in a transnational space. This is the first daily life study of undocumented immigrants and the first transnational analysis of Honduran families.