ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews literature on Mexican heritage families practices, including parenting - broadly conceived, using a spatial lens or the notion of socially produced space. It discusses how the construct of space has been used in the past and its relative recent resurgence as an analytical tool. The chapter provides an overview on how a spatial lens contributes to an understanding of Mexican heritage family's socialization practices. It illustrates how specializations, or the conceptualization of space, can add to our understandings of the practices of families of Mexican heritage. Over the past two decades there has been an increased concern with making strides in the understanding of the particular realities of Mexican heritage families from a sociocultural perspective. The concept of educación represents an important cultural model for immigrants from Mexico. Villenas studied how mothers were actively engaged in redefining a space for their children to become bien educados.
