Latinos and citizenship
Subtitle: the dilemma of belonging
By: edited by Suzanne Oboler.
Contributors: Oboler, Suzanne.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillian; Springer; Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9781403967398; 9781403967404
Subjects: Hispanic Americans -- Politics and government; Hispanic Americans -- Cultural assimilation; Immigrants -- United States -- Political activity; Citizenship -- United States; United States -- Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: I. Introduction; title: 1. Redefining citizenship as a lived experience / Suzanne Oboler; title: II. Citizenship and struggles for political inclusion and dignity in the 20th century; title: 2. "How they ignore our rights as American citizens" : Puerto Rican migrants and the politics of citizenship in the New Deal era / Lorrin Thomas; title: III. Citizenship : public policy implications; title: 3. The legal production of Mexican/migrant "illegality" / Nicholas De Genova; title: 4. Regulating transnational citizens in the post-1996 Welfare Reform era : Dominican immigrants in New York City / Greta A. Gilbertson; title: 5. Dual citizenship and political participation : migrants in the interplay of United States and Colombian politics / Cristina Escobar; title: 6. Roads to citizenship : Mexican migrants in the United States / Alejandra Castañeda; title: IV. Latino/as and citizenship : the immigrants' perspective  7. Boundaries, language, and the self : issues faced by Puerto Ricans and other Latino/a college students / Bonnie Urciuoli; title: 8. Necesidades y Problemas : immigrant Latina vernaculars of belonging, coalition, and citizenship in San Francisco, California / Kathleen Coll; title: 9. "Getting out the vote" in Los Angeles : the mobilization of undocumented migrants in electoral politics / Monica W. Varsanyi; title: 10. "Wise up!" : undocumented Latino youth, Mexican-American legislators, and the struggle for higher education access / Hinda Seif; title: V. Redefining citizenship, the present conundrum; title: 11. Delinquent citizenship, national performances : racialization, surveillance, and the politics of "worthiness" in Puerto Rican Chicago / Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas; title: 12. Transforming citizenship : membership, strategies of containment, and the public sphere in Latino communities / Raymond Rocco.