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Disenchanting citizenship : Mexican migrants and the boundaries of belonging / Luis F.B. Plascencia

Author
Plascencia, Luis F. B.
Published
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2012]
Copyright Date
©2012
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 252 pages).
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Introduction: locating citizenships -- Fields of citizenship -- The Janus face of citizenship: the side of inclusion -- The Janus face of citizenship: the side of exclusion -- The making of citizens: promoting and schooling -- Bearing true faith and allegiance: entering the circle of citizenship -- Desire, sacrifice, and disenchantment -- Epilogue: the boundaries of birth and power.
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.
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ISBN
9780813553344 (electronic bk.)
0813553342 (electronic bk.)
1280691697
9781280691690
9786613668639
661366863X
9780813552798
0813552796
9780813552804
081355280X
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-245) and index.
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