Disenchanting citizenship :: Mexican migrants and the boundaries of belonging /

Luis F.B. Plascencia's Disenchanting Citizenship explores two interrelated issues: U.S. citizenship and the Mexican migrants' position in the United States. Through an extensive and multifaceted collection of interviews, ethnographic fieldwork, ethno-historical research, and public policy...

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Main Author: Plascencia, Luis F. B.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2012.
Series:Latinidad.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:Luis F.B. Plascencia's Disenchanting Citizenship explores two interrelated issues: U.S. citizenship and the Mexican migrants' position in the United States. Through an extensive and multifaceted collection of interviews, ethnographic fieldwork, ethno-historical research, and public policy analysis, Plascencia probes the ways in which citizenship discourses are understood and taken up by individuals. The book uncovers citizenship's root as a Janus-faced construct that encompasses a simultaneous process of inclusion and exclusion. This notion of citizenship is mapped on to t.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 252 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-245) and index.
ISBN:9780813553344
0813553342
1280691697
9781280691690
9786613668639
661366863X

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