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Author:

Smith, Michael P.

Title:

Citizenship across borders : the political transnationalism of el migrante / Michael Peter Smith and Matt Bakker.

Publisher:

Cornell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xii, 249 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Transnationalism--Political aspects--United States.
Transnationalism--Political aspects--Mexico.
Immigrants--United States--Political activity.
Mexican Americans--Politics and government
Citizenship--United States.
Citizenship--Mexico.
United States--Political aspects.--Political aspects.
Mexico--Political aspects.--Political aspects.

Other Authors:

Bakker, Matt, 1971-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-242) and index.

Contents:

The politics of transnational citizenship -- Reconstructing the migrant in Mexican state-policy discourse -- The regional state and the politics of translocality : the Napa-El Timbinal connection -- The social construction of "migrant-led productive investment" -- Transnational electoral politics : the multiple coronations of the "Tomato King" -- Institutionalizing new spaces for migrant political agency : votar y ser votado in Mexico -- The second face of transnational citizenship : migrant activists recross the border -- The boundaries of citizenship : transnational power revisited -- Appendix : transnational ethnography : methods, fieldwork, and subjects.

ISBN:

080147390X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780801473906 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0801446082 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801446085 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)156784993

LCCN:

2007028872

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)