Chapter five traces the experiences of Paco’ s friend Rogelio Martínez Serna – and that of his male peers – across the US-Mexico borderlands. Chávez-García argues that these men crossed into the United States not only to deter impoverishment and hardship but, more importantly, to achieve an economically, personally, and emo- tionally stable family life. This final chapter opposes Chávez-García’ s initial assess- ment that these letters simply provided a window into broader social, political, and economic circumstances beyond their control in shaping their choices. Instead, Chá- vez-García illustrates how Rogelio and his male acquaintances were neither victims nor passive agents in the process of gaining employment and other opportunities. Their use of humor, creativity, and resilience afforded them opportunities to cope with larger structural systems that they otherwise could not dictate. Moreover, Chávez- García notes that their oppression toward women, women’ s bodies, gender, and female sexuality illustrates another dimension of agency that these men possessed when negotiating their lives in the United States. This study is important because, as Chávez-García notes, few histories on twentieth-century Mexico have examined migrants’ firsthand personal experiences in the United States. More than that, however, it creates new dominions of archival sources. The book demonstrates how new generations of historians, with access to personal family archives, can shed light on matters that dominant and traditional archival sources simply lack. Finally, Chávez-García’ s work provides a rudimentary outline for curating family archives within a larger historical framework. Solari, Cinzia D. 2018. On the Shoulders of Grandmothers: Gender, Migration, and Post-Soviet Nation-State Building. New York: Routledge. ix, 255 pp. $37.95. Reviewed by: Alexander Tymczuk, University of Oslo DOI: 10.1177/0197918318818501 In her book, Solari sets out to explain certain characteristics of the recent labor migration from Ukraine through the nexus of gender, nation-state building, globali- zation, and the transition to post-Soviet neoliberal capitalism. Based on extensive ethnographic work among domestic workers in Rome and California and among the children of labor migrants in Lviv, Ukraine, she describes how structural and dis- cursive dimensions in both sending and receiving countries produce gendered migrant subjectivities situated in disparate transnational social fields. Through ten narratives from a total of 160 in-depth interviews, Solari engagingly tells the story of Ukrainian grandmothers who venture into the capitalist West to build a post-Soviet Ukraine from the outside in. Solari’ s multisited ethnography is reflected in the book’ s structure. The first part describes how the difficult transition from socialism to capitalism in post-Soviet Ukraine, and the simultaneous transformation from an ideal of the extended to the nuclear family, has left middle-aged women marginalized from both the labor market 958 International Migration Review 53(3)