Pressing Onward

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The Imperative Resilience of Latina Migrant Mothers

By Jessica P. Cerdeña

Summary

Pressing Onward traces the stories of Latin American migrant mothers in New Haven, Connecticut, revealing how they overcome trauma and systemic challenges to create hopeful futures for their children. Employing ethnographic research, Jessica P. Cerdeña explores their resilience amid racial, economic, and gender oppression, especially in the context of immigration enforcement and healthcare disparities worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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This work will resonate with readers interested in social justice, immigration studies, healthcare inequality, and ethnographic narrative. It is suitable for educators, students, and activists seeking a deeper understanding of migrant resilience in the face of structural oppression.

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Pressing Onward narrates the lives of mothers who migrated from Latin America and settled in New Haven, Connecticut, overcoming trauma and ongoing adversity to build futures for their children. By enacting imperative resilience, migrant mothers engage cognitive and social strategies to resist racial, economic, and gender-based oppression to seguir adelante, or press onward.

Both a contemporary view of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on racially minoritised populations and a timeless account of the ways immigration enforcement and healthcare inequality affect migrant mothers, Pressing Onward uses ethnography to tell a greater story of persistence amid longstanding structural violence.

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The book is lauded for its insightful commentary rooted in the author’s activism. CHOICE praises it for highlighting healthcare service failures for undocumented women, particularly around maternity care, and endorses it as a recommended read that gives voice to the mothers’ lived experiences.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520394018

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 April 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Illustration: 4 maps, 2 charts, 1 b&w image, 3 tables

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 363g

Pages: 244

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About the Author

Jessica P. Cerdeña is an anthropologist, family physician-in-training, and mother of two who lives in New Haven, Connecticut, where she advocates for racial justice and health equity (Twitter: @jes_cerdena).

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