Considering Gender in Transnational Places and Spaces: The Case of the Rural Youth Soccer Association (RYSA)
Binational migration affects all facets of life on both sides of the US-Mexico border. It reshapes social relationships, gender, worldview and health behaviors not only in Mexican sending communities but also in the thousands of receiving communities in the US. Over the past ten years, I have worked with farmworkers in a receiving community in Hillsborough County, Florida. I have been continually struck by the dissonance between my experiences in the "community" and outside accounts, especially numerous stories in the Tampa Tribune. These relate obituaries, crime stories and the worst kinds of violence, murder or vehicular homicide.