Specters of belonging : the political life cycle of Mexican migrants / Adrián Félix.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Félix, Adrián, 1983- author.

Series:

Studies in subaltern Latina/o politics.

Oxford scholarship online.

Studies in subaltern Latina/o politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexicans--United States--Politics and government.

Mexican Americans--Attitudes.

Citizenship--United States.

Return migration--Mexico.

Naturalization--United States.

Mexican Americans--Politics and government.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Mexico--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Drawing on his experiences leading citizenship classes for Mexican migrants and working with cross-border activists, Adrián Félix examines the political lives (and deaths) of Mexican migrants in Specters of Belonging. Tracing transnationalism across the different stages of the migrant political life cycle - beginning with the so-called political baptism of naturalization and ending with the practice by which migrant bodies are repatriated to Mexico for burial after death, Félix reveals the varied ways in which Mexican transnational subjects practice citizenship in the United States as well as Mexico.

Contents:

Introduction : the political life cycle of Mexican migrants

Enunciations of transnational citizenship : Mexican migrants' encounters with naturalization

Enactments of transnational citizenship : migrants' entanglements with Mexican party politics

Embodiments of transnational citizenship : postmortem repatriation from the United States to México

Conclusion : transnational afterlife

Epilogue : phantom paisanos.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Previously issued in print: 2018.

ISBN:

0-19-087939-4

0-19-093208-2

0-19-087938-6