Working the boundaries
Subtitle: race, space, and "illegality" in Mexican Chicago
By: Nicholas De Genova.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
Subjects: Mexican Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions; Mexicans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions; Immigrants -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions; Illegal aliens -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions; Nationalism -- United States; Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects -- United States; Mexican Americans -- Study and teaching; Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations; Chicago (Ill.) -- Emigration and immigration; Mexico -- Emigration and immigration
Description: Nicholas De Genova provides an ethnographic study of transnational migration, racialisation, labour subordination and citizenship in Chicago's Mexican migrant community.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : working the boundaries; title: Decolonizing ethnography; title: The "native's point of view" : immigration and the immigrant as objects of U.S. nationalism; title: Locating a Mexican Chicago in the space of the U.S. nation-state; title: The politics of production; title: Reracialization : between "Americans" and Blacks; title: The legal production of Mexican/migrant "illegality".