A nation of emigrants : how Mexico manages its migration / David Fitzgerald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

FitzGerald, David, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Return migration--Mexico.

Return migration.

Mexicans--United States.

Mexicans.

Mexico--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Mexico.

Mexico--Emigration and immigration--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What do governments do when much of their population simply gets up and walks away? In Mexico and other migrant-sending countries, mass emigration prompts governments to negotiate a new social contract with their citizens abroad. After decades of failed efforts to control outflow, the Mexican state now emphasizes voluntary ties, dual nationality, and rights over obligations. In this groundbreaking book, David Fitzgerald examines a region of Mexico whose citizens have been migrating to the United States for more than a century. He finds that emigrant citizenship does not signal the decline of the nation-state but does lead to a new form of citizenship, and that bureaucratic efforts to manage emigration and its effects are based on the membership model of the Catholic Church.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Politics of Absence

2. Inside the Sending State

3. The Church's Eye on Its Flock

4. Colonies of the Little Motherland

5. The Stranger or the Prodigal Son?

Conclusion

Appendix. Survey Methodology

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-234) and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9786612360749

9781282360747

1282360744

9780520942479

0520942477

OCLC:

773565098