[Linganth] Lynette Arnold's new book

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Today on CaMP anthropology, Lynette Arnold talks about her new book with
Diego Arispe-Bazán.  See the interview exploring *Living Together across
Borders: Communicative Care among Transnational El Salvadoran Families*.

campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb: In *Living Together Across Borders*, author Lynnette Arnold
tells the stories of extended families living stretched between a rural
Salvadoran village and the urban locations in the United States where their
migrant relatives live. In this multi-sited ethnography, Arnold examines
seemingly mundane conversational practices-such as sending greetings,
negotiating remittances, and reminiscing together-that are central to
family life across borders. Arnold underscores the consequentiality of
these linguistic practices by tracing how they are shaped by and re-shape
gendered and generational norms of family care, as well as how they are
tied to Salvadoran histories of migration, violence, and poverty, which are
powerfully influenced by U.S. economic and foreign policy.

This book demonstrates that these communicative practices bring inequities
between the global North and South into family life by continually
reproducing distinctions between relatives in El Salvador and those living
in the United States. Conversely, she examines seemingly mundane
interactions including greetings, remittance negotiations, and reminiscing
together. Although these relational moments of cross-border connection are
fleeting, their impacts endure, laying the foundation for the ongoing
material and economic provisioning necessary to family survival. Through
cross-border conversations, families nurture intergenerational relations
that sustain the family and *convivencia *(living-together) over the years
despite ongoing separation.
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