Elizabeth M. Aranda is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Miami. She has published articles in Gender & Society and the American Behavioral Scientist. Her current research is on immigrants to South Florida, their patterns of incorporation, and the nature of race relations in multi-ethnic, global cities.

Elizabeth Aranda provides an original, sensitive, and insightful analysis of the subjective experience of transnational migration. Based on in-depth interviews with middle-class Puerto Ricans in the United States and Puerto Rico, her work documents how emotions shape the daily lives of people who move abroad, resettle, incorporate, and often move again. I am extremely impressed by Aranda?s wealth of data, rich interpretations, innovative theoretical framework, tight arguments, and broad sociological imagination...

• Chapter 1 Where is Home? Living Transnational LivesChapter 2 Class Origins, Modes of Incorporation, and Pathways into the Transnational Middle ClassChapter 3 The Transnationalization of Puerto Rican Families and the Empty Spaces of MigrationChapter 4 Ethnoracial Marginalization and Cultural AlienationChapter 5 Dual Frames of Reference, Emotional Embeddedness and Patterns of Settlement Within Transnational Social FieldsChapter 6 Conclusion: Weighing Hearts and Minds

Elizabeth M. Aranda is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Miami. She has published articles in Gender & Society and the American Behavioral Scientist. Her current research is on immigrants to South Florida, their patterns of incorporation, and the nature of race relations in multi-ethnic, global cities.

Elizabeth Aranda provides an original, sensitive, and insightful analysis of the subjective experience of transnational migration. Based on in-depth interviews with middle-class Puerto Ricans in the United States and Puerto Rico, her work documents how emotions shape the daily lives of people who move abroad, resettle, incorporate, and often move again. I am extremely impressed by Aranda?s wealth of data, rich interpretations, innovative theoretical framework, tight arguments, and broad sociological imagination...

• Chapter 1 Where is Home? Living Transnational LivesChapter 2 Class Origins, Modes of Incorporation, and Pathways into the Transnational Middle ClassChapter 3 The Transnationalization of Puerto Rican Families and the Empty Spaces of MigrationChapter 4 Ethnoracial Marginalization and Cultural AlienationChapter 5 Dual Frames of Reference, Emotional Embeddedness and Patterns of Settlement Within Transnational Social FieldsChapter 6 Conclusion: Weighing Hearts and Minds