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Los Yarderos : Mexican Yard Workers in Transborder Chicago - Sergio Lemus

Los Yarderos

Mexican Yard Workers in Transborder Chicago

By: Sergio Lemus

eBook | 20 May 2025

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Migrants from the Mexican states of Zacatecas, Guanajuato, Jalisco, and Michoacan have become an important presence in Chicago and the Midwest. Many hold jobs as yarderos gardening, caring for lawns, and doing other landscaping work.

Sergio Lemus explores the lives of these migrants and looks at the struggles they face as they work to make the city their home. Drawing on fieldwork in South Chicago, Lemus tells the stories of first and second-generation yarderos and discusses the historical, economic, cultural, and political ramifications they face as they acquire their working-class identity. Lemus's compassionate portrait places them within America's ongoing tradition as a nation of immigrants while analyzing their place within today's transborder cultural moment.

Perceptive and humane, Los Yarderos reveals how a group of Mexican immigrants navigates the crossings of the borders that divide class, color hierarchies, gender, and belonging.

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