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The Politics of Citizenship of Mexican Migrants (The New Americans: Recent Immigration and American Society)
Alejandra Castaneda
Hardcover. LFB Scholarly Pub Llc 2006-02-14.
ISBN 9781593321345
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Publisher description
Castaneda aims at bridging the divide between a critique of a state-centered notion of citizenship and the recognition of Mexican migrants as political actors, as well as subjects of the law. Migrants' stories and the transnational space they inhabit are political. Struggles for belonging, for citizenship--legal, cultural, or both--take place in migrants' everyday lives. Based on data from Aguililla, Michoacan (Mexico) and Redwood City, California (United States), Castaneda argues that citizenship lies at the crossroads of legal definitions of membership and senses of belonging. She maintains that citizenship is a site of political struggle, a struggle that takes place in everyday interactions and in the relation between state and people
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