Between two nations : the political predicament of Latinos in New York City /

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Immigrants come to the United States from all over Latin America in search of better lives. They obtain residency status, find jobs, pay taxes, and they have children who are American citizens by birth; yet decades may go by before they seek citizenship for themselves or become active participants i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jones-Correa, Michael, 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1998.
Temas:
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Hispanic Americans > New York (State) > New York > Politics and government.
Immigrants > Political activity > New York (State) > New York.
Citizenship > New York (State) > New York.
Américains d'origine latino-américaine > New York (État) > New York > Politique et gouvernement.
Immigrants > Activité politique > New York (État) > New York.
Citoyenneté > New York (État) > New York.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
Citizenship
Ethnic relations
Hispanic Americans > Politics and government
Immigrants > Political activity
Ethnische Beziehungen
Hispanos
Politisches Engagement
Citoyenneté > États-Unis > New York (N.Y.)
Immigrés > États-Unis > New York (N.Y.) > Activité politique.
Américains d'origine latino-américaine > États-Unis > New York (N.Y.) > Politique et gouvernement.
New York (N.Y.) > Ethnic relations.
New York (N.Y.) > Relations interethniques.
New York (State) > New York
New York (N.Y.)
Hispanos.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The new Hispanic immigration
  • Intimate strangers: immigration to Queens
  • Participation in the American polity: why citizenship matters
  • Explaining participation: why it takes so long to become a citizen
  • Resistance from outside: machine politics and the (non)Incorporation of immigrants
  • Resistance from within: the myth of return and the community of memory
  • In between identities: race and ethnicity in the American context
  • The politics of in between: avoiding irreconcilable demands, keeping loyalties
  • Wanting it both ways: the quest for dual citizenship
  • Wanting in: Latin American immigrant women and the turn to electoral politics
  • Liminality and democratic citizenship.

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