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

Nicholas De Genova provides an ethnographic study of transnational migration, racialisation, labour subordination and citizenship in Chicago's Mexican migrant community.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: De Genova, Nicholas (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : working the boundaries
  • Decolonizing ethnography
  • The "native's point of view" : immigration and the immigrant as objects of U.S. nationalism
  • Locating a Mexican Chicago in the space of the U.S. nation-state
  • The politics of production
  • Reracialization : between "Americans" and Blacks
  • The legal production of Mexican/migrant "illegality."