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Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and Illegality in Mexican Chicago Race, Space, And Illegality in Mexican Chicago

Name: Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and Illegality in Mexican Chicago
Author: Nicholas De Genova

Auteur: Nicholas De Genova

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Nicholas De Genova Nicholas De Genova

Co-auteur: de Genova

Engels
Paperback
9780822336150
18 oktober 2005
329 pagina's

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An ethnographic study of transnational migration, racialization, labor subordination, and citizenship in Chicago's Mexican migrant community

While Chicago has the second-largest Mexican population among U.S. cities, relatively little ethnographic attention has focused on its Mexican community. This much-needed ethnography of Mexicans living and working in Chicago examines processes of racialization, labor subordination, and class formation; the politics of nativism; and the structures of citizenship and immigration law. Nicholas De Genova develops a theory of “Mexican Chicago” as a transnational social and geographic space that joins Chicago to innumerable communities throughout Mexico. “Mexican Chicago” is a powerful analytical tool, a challenge to the way that social scientists have thought about immigration and pluralism in the United States, and the basis for a wide-ranging critique of U.S. notions of race, national identity, and citizenship.

De Genova worked for two and a half years as a teacher of English in ten industrial workplaces (primarily metal-fabricating factories) throughout Chicago and its suburbs. In Working the Boundaries he draws on fieldwork conducted in these factories, in community centers, and in the homes and neighborhoods of Mexican migrants. He describes how the meaning of “Mexican” is refigured and racialized in relation to a U.S. social order dominated by a black-white binary. Delving into immigration law, he contends that immigration policies have worked over time to produce Mexicans as the U.S. nation-state’s iconic “illegal aliens.” He explains how the constant threat of deportation is used to keep Mexican workers in line. Working the Boundaries is a major contribution to theories of race and transnationalism and a scathing indictment of U.S. labor and citizenship policies.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 18 oktober 2005
Aantal pagina's: 329
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Hoofdauteur: Nicholas De Genova
Tweede Auteur: Nicholas De Genova
Co Auteur: de Genova
Hoofduitgeverij: Duke University Press

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Editie: illustrated edition
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Product breedte: 152 mm
Product hoogte: 32 mm
Product lengte: 222 mm
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Verpakking breedte: 152 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 23 mm
Verpakking lengte: 230 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 476 g

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Categorieën: Mens & Maatschappij

Cultuur

Sociologie

Interdisciplinaire studies

Sociale theorie

Regionale studies

Culturele antropologie

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Land: Verenigde Staten, Mexico
Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar
Taal: Engels
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