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The Politics of Citizenship of Mexican Migrants (The New Americans: Recent Immigration and American Society)
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Product 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.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1005323 in Books
- Published on: 2006-02-14
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 222 pages
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About the Author
Alejandra Castaneda studied Social Anthropology at the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH) in Mexico City. She came to the United States as a Fulbright Scholar and earned her PhD in Cultural Anthropology at the University of California Santa Cruz. Her main research interests are migration studies, political anthropology, and legal anthropology.
