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Citizenship across borders [[electronic resource] ] : the political transnationalism of El migrante / / Michael Peter Smith and Matt Bakker



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Autore: Smith Michael P Visualizza persona
Titolo: Citizenship across borders [[electronic resource] ] : the political transnationalism of El migrante / / Michael Peter Smith and Matt Bakker Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, c2008
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (261 p.)
Disciplina: 323.6/3
Soggetto topico: Transnationalism - Political aspects - United States
Transnationalism - Political aspects - Mexico
Immigrants - Political activity - United States
Mexican Americans - Politics and government
Citizenship - United States
Citizenship - Mexico
Soggetto geografico: United States Emigration and immigration Political aspects
Mexico Emigration and immigration Political aspects
Altri autori: BakkerMatt <1971->  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Setting the stage -- pt. 2. The politics of transnational community development -- pt. 3. El migrante as transnational citizen -- pt. 4. The two faces of transnational citizenship.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Citizenship across borders  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8014-6187-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910809461303321
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