Constructing citizenship
Subtitle: transnational workers and revolution on the Mexico-Guatemala border, 1880--1950
By: Catherine A. Nolan-Ferrell
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780816529803
Subjects: Citizenship; Agricultural laborers; Social policy; Foreign Agricultural laborers; Social condition; Social conditions; Rural poor; Economic policy; Nationalism; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Making the Soconusco Mexican; title: Controlling workers, enforcing borders; title: Creating "Mexicans": negotiating meanings of national identity; title: Identity and community: battles over space and place; title: Peasants, rural workers, or campesinos?; title: Rural reforms, transnational communities, and identity, 1941; title: 1946; title: Negotiating the meanings of the post-revolutionary Mexican state.