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In this gorgeously written and authentic novel, Veronica, a Peruvian-American teen with hip dysplasia, auditions to become a mermaid at a Central Florida theme park in the summer before her senior year, all while figuring out her first real boyfriend and how to feel safe in her own body. Veronica has had many surgeries to manage her disability. The best form of rehabilitation is swimming, so she spends hours in the pool, but not just to strengthen her body. Her Florida town is home to Mermaid Cove, a kitschy underwater attraction where professional mermaids perform in giant tanks . . . and Veronica wants to audition. But her conservative Peruvian parents would never go for it. And they definitely would never let her be with Alex, her cute new neighbor. She decides it's time to seize control of her life, but her plans come crashing down when she learns her parents have been hiding the truth from her-the truth about her own body.
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• Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: The Geography of Jewish Lima
• 1. The Intersection Between Peruvian-ness and Jewishness
• 2. Orthodox-ish: Religious Judaism in Lima
• 3. Agents of Socialization: Israel, the Jewish Agency, and the Jewish Day School
• 4. Elective Affinity and Changes in Family Formation
• 5. From Immigrants to Peruvians: Jews in the Public Sphere
• 6. Final Remarks List of Tables
• 1. Jewish Religious Diversity in Lima
• 2. Changes in Attitudes Towards Family Formation among Jews and Non-Jews in Lima According to Gender
• 3. Chronology of Landmarks for the Analysis of Jewish Limeno Organized Life, 1944-2014
• 4. Interviewees from Cohort 1 (over 75 years old)
• 5. Interviewees from Cohort 2 (51-74 years old)
• 6. Interviewees from Cohort 3 (40-50 years old) List of Images
• 1. Calle Judios (Judios Street), next to Lima's cathedral, ca.
• 1910.
• 2. Old sign on the fourth block of Maimonides Street, San Isidro.
• 3. Rival new and old street signs in San Isidro.
• 4. Original wall with addition.
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In San Isidro, Lima, the only Jewish school in Peru stands on a street widely known as "Los Manzanos" ("The Apple Trees") but whose name changes to "Maimonides" (the Jewish sage) depending on which sign you look at. As she takes us on a stroll through this six-block street and its different names, Dr. Romina Yalonetzky introduces readers to a physical microcosm of the intersection between Peruvian and Jewish identity, elucidated through the varied voices and experiences of Peruvian Jews. This book sheds a novel light on both Jewish and Peruvian identities.
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Ana Falcón, along with her husband Lucho and their two young children, has fled the economic and political strife of Peru for a chance at a new life in New York City in the 1990s. Being undocumented, however, has significantly curtailed the family's opportunities: Ana is indebted to a loan shark who calls herself Mama, and is stretched thin by unceasing shifts at her factory job. To make matters worse, Ana must also battle both criticism from Lucho's cousin--who has made it obvious the family is not welcome to stay in her spare room for much longer--and escalating and unwanted attention from Mama's husband

This volume offers a selection of tales of seventeen Peruvian writers born after 1970 and who currently live in the United States or have lived in this country for long periods. If at some point these stories coincide, it is in pointing out the crisis, not to say the bankruptcy, of the "American dream," a myth of peace, freedom and prosperity that guide today the odyssey of thousands of Peruvian, Latin American and worldwide migrants. The authors hope the book is a way to build bridges "between the literature that is produced within the national territory and that born outside its borders."

• Privilege, racialization, and exclusionary cosmopolitanism in transnational trajectories
• Gendering return: From middle-class senoras to migrants without domestic help, and back
• Gendering everyday violence and seguridad across spaces
• Heteronormativity, homophobia, and home
• The taste of home: Nostalgia, pride, and the limits of inclusion.

In Peruvian Lives across Borders, M. Cristina Alcalde examines the evolution of belonging and the making of home among middle- and upper-class Peruvians in Peru, the United States, Canada, and Germany. Alcalde draws on interviews, surveys, participant observation, and textual analysis to argue that to belong is to exclude. To that end, transnational Peruvians engage in both subtle and direct policing along the borders of belonging. These acts allow them to claim and maintain the social status they enjoyed in their homeland even as they profess their openness and tolerance. Alcalde details these processes and their origins in Peru's gender, racial, and class hierarchies. As she shows, the idea of return--whether desired or rejected, imagined or physical--spurs constructions of Peruvianness, belonging, and home. Deeply researched and theoretically daring, Peruvian Lives across Borders answers fascinating questions about an understudied group of migrants.
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• CoverTitleCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Transnational Lives: Home, Privilege, and ExclusionChapter 1:Privilege, Racialization, and Exclusionary Cosmopolitanism in Transnational TrajectoriesChapter 2:Gendering Return: From Middle-Class Senoras to Migrants without Domestic Help, and BackChapter 3:Gendering Everyday Violence and Seguridad across SpacesChapter 4:Heteronormativity, Homophobia, and HomeChapter 5:The Taste of Home: Nostalgia, Pride, and the Limits of InclusionConclusion:Persistent Hierarchies and Transnational LivesNotesBibliographyIndex.
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In Peruvian Lives across Borders, M. Cristina Alcalde examines the evolution of belonging and the making of home among middle- and upper-class Peruvians in Peru, the United States, Canada, and Germany. Alcalde draws on interviews, surveys, participant observation, and textual analysis to argue that to belong is to exclude. To that end, transnational Peruvians engage in both subtle and direct policing along the borders of belonging. These acts allow them to claim and maintain the social status they enjoyed in their homeland even as they profess their openness and tolerance. Alcalde details these processes and their origins in Peru's gender, racial, and class hierarchies. As she shows, the idea of return-whether desired or rejected, imagined or physical-spurs constructions of Peruvianness, belonging, and home.Deeply researched and theoretically daring, Peruvian Lives across Borders answers fascinating questions about an understudied group of migrants.
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• CoverTitleCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Transnational Lives: Home, Privilege, and ExclusionChapter 1:Privilege, Racialization, and Exclusionary Cosmopolitanism in Transnational TrajectoriesChapter 2:Gendering Return: From Middle-Class Senoras to Migrants without Domestic Help, and BackChapter 3:Gendering Everyday Violence and Seguridad across SpacesChapter 4:Heteronormativity, Homophobia, and HomeChapter 5:The Taste of Home: Nostalgia, Pride, and the Limits of InclusionConclusion:Persistent Hierarchies and Transnational LivesNotesBibliographyIndex.
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In Peruvian Lives across Borders, M. Cristina Alcalde examines the evolution of belonging and the making of home among middle- and upper-class Peruvians in Peru, the United States, Canada, and Germany.Alcalde draws on interviews, surveys, participant observation, and textual analysis to argue that to belong is to exclude. To that end, transnational Peruvians engage in both subtle and direct policing along the borders of belonging. These acts allow them to claim and maintain the social status they enjoyed in their homeland even as they profess their openness and tolerance. Alcalde details these processes and their origins in Peru's gender, racial, and class hierarchies. As she shows, the idea of return-whether desired or rejected, imagined or physical-spurs constructions of Peruvianness, belonging, and home. Deeply researched and theoretically daring, Peruvian Lives across Borders answers fascinating questions about an understudied group of migrants.
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• Sudamerican dream
• Llévame para cocinar
• Puertas adentro
• La fiesta de la choledad
• Visa definitiva.

• A manera de prólogo
• París
• De Barcelona a Córdoba
• Del los Países Bajos a los bosques de Viena
• Roma, ya no es la misma Roma...
• Por la Galilea, el Bósforo y el Mar Egeo
• Bajo el signo de Mahoma y de Buda
• Irán
• A orillas del Ganges
• En la Unión Soviética
• China
• Colofón: Réquiem por Rosita Shamón y el medio ambiente
• Reconocimientos.