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Citizenship across Borders : The Political Transnationalism of El Migrante / Matt Bakker, Michael Peter Smith.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) : 4 maps, 9 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780801461873
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323.6/3
LOC classification:
  • JV6477
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- Part 1. Setting the Stage -- 1. The Politics of Transnational Citizenship -- 2. Reconstructing the Migrant in Mexican State-Policy Discourse -- PART 2. The Politics of Transnational Community Development -- 3. The Regional State and the Politics of Translocality -- 4. The Social Construction of "Migrant-Led Productive Investment" -- Part 3. El Migrante as Transnational Citizen -- 5. Transnational Electoral Politics: The Multiple Coronations of the "Tomato King" -- 6. Institutionalizing New Spaces for Migrant Political Agency: Votary Ser Votado in Mexico -- Part 4. The Two Faces of Transnational Citizenship -- 7. The Second Face of Transnational Citizenship: Migrant Activists Recross the Border -- 8. The Boundaries of Citizenship: Transnational Power Revisited -- Appendix Transnational Ethnography: Methods, Fieldwork, and Subjects -- References -- Index
Summary: Michael Peter Smith and Matt Bakker spent five years carrying out ethnographic field research in multiple communities in the Mexican states of Zacatecas and Guanajuato and various cities in California, particularly metropolitan Los Angeles. Combining the information they gathered there with political-economic and institutional analysis, the five extended case studies in Citizenship across Borders offer a new way of looking at the emergent dynamics of transnational community development and electoral politics on both sides of the border. Smith and Bakker highlight the continuing significance of territorial identifications and state policies—particularly those of the sending state—in cultivating and sustaining transnational connections and practices. In so doing, they contextualize and make sense of the complex interplay of identity and loyalty in the lives of transnational migrant activists. In contrast to high-profile warnings of the dangers to national cultures and political institutions brought about by long-distance nationalism and dual citizenship, Citizenship across Borders demonstrates that, far from undermining loyalty and diminishing engagement in U.S. political life, the practice of dual citizenship by Mexican migrants actually provides a sense of empowerment that fosters migrants' active civic engagement in American as well as Mexican politics.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- Part 1. Setting the Stage -- 1. The Politics of Transnational Citizenship -- 2. Reconstructing the Migrant in Mexican State-Policy Discourse -- PART 2. The Politics of Transnational Community Development -- 3. The Regional State and the Politics of Translocality -- 4. The Social Construction of "Migrant-Led Productive Investment" -- Part 3. El Migrante as Transnational Citizen -- 5. Transnational Electoral Politics: The Multiple Coronations of the "Tomato King" -- 6. Institutionalizing New Spaces for Migrant Political Agency: Votary Ser Votado in Mexico -- Part 4. The Two Faces of Transnational Citizenship -- 7. The Second Face of Transnational Citizenship: Migrant Activists Recross the Border -- 8. The Boundaries of Citizenship: Transnational Power Revisited -- Appendix Transnational Ethnography: Methods, Fieldwork, and Subjects -- References -- Index

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Michael Peter Smith and Matt Bakker spent five years carrying out ethnographic field research in multiple communities in the Mexican states of Zacatecas and Guanajuato and various cities in California, particularly metropolitan Los Angeles. Combining the information they gathered there with political-economic and institutional analysis, the five extended case studies in Citizenship across Borders offer a new way of looking at the emergent dynamics of transnational community development and electoral politics on both sides of the border. Smith and Bakker highlight the continuing significance of territorial identifications and state policies—particularly those of the sending state—in cultivating and sustaining transnational connections and practices. In so doing, they contextualize and make sense of the complex interplay of identity and loyalty in the lives of transnational migrant activists. In contrast to high-profile warnings of the dangers to national cultures and political institutions brought about by long-distance nationalism and dual citizenship, Citizenship across Borders demonstrates that, far from undermining loyalty and diminishing engagement in U.S. political life, the practice of dual citizenship by Mexican migrants actually provides a sense of empowerment that fosters migrants' active civic engagement in American as well as Mexican politics.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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