A nation of emigrants : how Mexico manages its migration / / David Fitzgerald

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910809252603321
• Autore: FitzGerald David <1972->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009
• ISBN: 1-282-36074-4; 9786612360749; 0-520-94247-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (259 p.)
• Disciplina: 325.72
• Soggetti: Return migration - Mexico; Mexicans - United States; Mexico Emigration and immigration Government policy; Mexico Emigration and immigration Religious aspects Catholic Church
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-234) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Politics of Absence -- 2. Inside the Sending State -- 3. The Church's Eye on Its Flock -- 4. Colonies of the Little Motherland -- 5. The Stranger or the Prodigal Son? -- Conclusion -- Appendix. Survey Methodology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: What do governments do when much of their population simply gets up and walks away? In Mexico and other migrant-sending countries, mass emigration prompts governments to negotiate a new social contract with their citizens abroad. After decades of failed efforts to control outflow, the Mexican state now emphasizes voluntary ties, dual nationality, and rights over obligations. In this groundbreaking book, David Fitzgerald examines a region of Mexico whose citizens have been migrating to the United States for more than a century. He finds that emigrant citizenship does not signal the decline of the nation-state but does lead to a new form of citizenship, and that bureaucratic efforts to manage emigration and its effects are based on the membership model of the Catholic Church.