Specters of Belonging
The Political Life Cycle of Mexican Migrants
Seiten
2019
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-087937-2 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-087937-2 (ISBN)
As the United States hardens its border with Mexico, how do migrants make transnational claims of citizenship in both nation-states? By enacting citizenship in both countries, Mexican migrants are challenging the meaning of membership and belonging from the margins of both citizenship regimes. With their incessant border-shattering political practices, Mexican migrants have become the embodiment of transnational citizenship on both sides of the divide.
Drawing on his experiences leading citizenship classes for Mexican migrants and working with cross-border activists, Adrián Félix examines the political lives (and deaths) of Mexican migrants in Specters of Belonging. Tracing transnationalism across the different stages of the migrant political life cycle - beginning with the so-called political baptism of naturalization and ending with the practice by which migrant bodies are repatriated to Mexico for burial after death - Félix reveals the varied ways in which Mexican transnational subjects practice citizenship in the United States as well as Mexico. As such, Félix unearths how Mexican migrants' specters of belonging perennially haunt the political projects of nationalism, citizenship, and democracy on both sides of the border.
Drawing on his experiences leading citizenship classes for Mexican migrants and working with cross-border activists, Adrián Félix examines the political lives (and deaths) of Mexican migrants in Specters of Belonging. Tracing transnationalism across the different stages of the migrant political life cycle - beginning with the so-called political baptism of naturalization and ending with the practice by which migrant bodies are repatriated to Mexico for burial after death - Félix reveals the varied ways in which Mexican transnational subjects practice citizenship in the United States as well as Mexico. As such, Félix unearths how Mexican migrants' specters of belonging perennially haunt the political projects of nationalism, citizenship, and democracy on both sides of the border.
Adrián Félix is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California Riverside.
Foreword: Ghosts across Borders by Gustavo Arellano
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Political Life Cycle of Mexican Migrants
Chapter 2: Enunciations of Transnational Citizenship: Mexican Migrants' Encounters with Naturalization
Chapter 3: Enactments of Transnational Citizenship: Migrants' Entanglements with Mexican Party Politics
Chapter 4: Embodiments of Transnational Citizenship: Postmortem Repatriation from the United States to México
Chapter 5: Conclusion: Transnational Afterlife
Epilogue: Phantom Paisanos
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.12.2018 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in Subaltern Latina/o Politics |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 234 x 155 mm |
| Gewicht | 272 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-087937-8 / 0190879378 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-087937-2 / 9780190879372 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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