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Mexican Hometown Associations in Chicagoacán : From Local to Transnational Civic Engagement / Xóchitl Bada.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in thePublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (242 p.) : 2 figures and 3 tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813564937
  • 9780813564944
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.868/72073077311
LOC classification:
  • F548.9.M5 B34 2014
  • F548.9.M5 B34 2014eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Migrant Generosity and Transnational Civic Engagement -- 2. The Transformation of Mexican Migrant Organizations -- 3. Genealogies of Hometown Associations -- 4. Migrant Clubs to the Rescue -- 5. Participatory Planning across Borders -- 6. Expanding Agendas and Building Transnational Coalitions -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author
Summary: Chicago is home to the second-largest Mexican immigrant population in the United States, yet the activities of this community have gone relatively unexamined by both the media and academia. In this groundbreaking new book, Xóchitl Bada takes us inside one of the most vital parts of Chicago's Mexican immigrant community-its many hometown associations. Hometown associations (HTAs) consist of immigrants from the same town in Mexico and often begin quite informally, as soccer clubs or prayer groups. As Bada's work shows, however, HTAs have become a powerful force for change, advocating for Mexican immigrants in the United States while also working to improve living conditions in their communities of origin. Focusing on a group of HTAs founded by immigrants from the state of Michoacán, the book shows how their activism has bridged public and private spheres, mobilizing social reforms in both inner-city Chicago and rural Mexico. Bringing together ethnography, political theory, and archival research, Bada excavates the surprisingly long history of Chicago's HTAs, dating back to the 1920s, then traces the emergence of new models of community activism in the twenty-first century. Filled with vivid observations and original interviews, Mexican Hometown Associations in Chicagoacán gives voice to an underrepresented community and sheds light on an underexplored form of global activism.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Migrant Generosity and Transnational Civic Engagement -- 2. The Transformation of Mexican Migrant Organizations -- 3. Genealogies of Hometown Associations -- 4. Migrant Clubs to the Rescue -- 5. Participatory Planning across Borders -- 6. Expanding Agendas and Building Transnational Coalitions -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author

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Chicago is home to the second-largest Mexican immigrant population in the United States, yet the activities of this community have gone relatively unexamined by both the media and academia. In this groundbreaking new book, Xóchitl Bada takes us inside one of the most vital parts of Chicago's Mexican immigrant community-its many hometown associations. Hometown associations (HTAs) consist of immigrants from the same town in Mexico and often begin quite informally, as soccer clubs or prayer groups. As Bada's work shows, however, HTAs have become a powerful force for change, advocating for Mexican immigrants in the United States while also working to improve living conditions in their communities of origin. Focusing on a group of HTAs founded by immigrants from the state of Michoacán, the book shows how their activism has bridged public and private spheres, mobilizing social reforms in both inner-city Chicago and rural Mexico. Bringing together ethnography, political theory, and archival research, Bada excavates the surprisingly long history of Chicago's HTAs, dating back to the 1920s, then traces the emergence of new models of community activism in the twenty-first century. Filled with vivid observations and original interviews, Mexican Hometown Associations in Chicagoacán gives voice to an underrepresented community and sheds light on an underexplored form of global activism.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)