1 option
Working the boundaries : race, space, and "illegality" in Mexican Chicago / Nicholas De Genova.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- De Genova, Nicholas.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mexican Americans--Illinois--Chicago--Social conditions.
- Mexican Americans.
- Mexicans--Illinois--Chicago--Social conditions.
- Mexicans.
- Immigrants--Illinois--Chicago--Social conditions.
- Immigrants.
- Noncitizens--Illinois--Chicago--Social conditions.
- Noncitizens.
- Nationalism--United States.
- Nationalism.
- Emigration and immigration--Political aspects--United States.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Mexican Americans--Study and teaching.
- Illegal immigration.
- Chicago (Ill.)--Race relations.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Chicago (Ill.)--Emigration and immigration.
- Mexico--Emigration and immigration.
- Mexico.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 329 pages) : map
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An ethnographic study of transnational migration, racialization, labor subordination, and citizenship in Chicago's Mexican migrant community.
- 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".
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-309) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613022028
- 9781283022026
- 1283022028
- 9780822387091
- 0822387093
- OCLC:
- 656569414
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.