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English
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"I Will Always be an American Living in Mexico" : Women of the Mormon Colonies
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Tempe, Arizona
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Arizona State University
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101
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Master's Thesis
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The "Mormon Colonies" in Chihuahua, northern Mexico, boast a sizable population of women originally from the United States who have migrated to these small Mexican towns. This ethnographic study of the immigrant women in the area focuses on questions of citizenship and belonging, and bolsters the scholarship on U.S. American migrants in Mexico. Using data from 15 unstructured interviews, the women's experiences of migration provide a portrait of U.S. American migrants in a Mexican religious community. Analysis of this data using grounded theory has revealed that these U.S. American women have created a third social space for themselves, to a large degree retaining their original culture, language, and political loyalty. Their stories contribute to the literature on transnational migration, providing an account of the way migrants of privilege interact with their society of settlement.