La Casa de Mis Suenos

the long version

"La Casa de Mis Suenos examines the efforts of villagers from Napizaro to build their "dream houses" in Mexico through participation in transnational migration. New house designs reshape the spatial ordering of everyday life and are part of the recreation of social space in a changing economic and moral landscape. These changes have engendered conflict as migration usurps traditional routes to prosperity and success and as migrants' houses become both the locus of growing consumerism and a site for heavily charged and contested ideas about family and community."--BOOK JACKET.