Limit this search to....

Transnational Citizenship Across the Americas
Contributor(s): Berg, Ulla (Editor), Rodriguez, Robyn (Editor)
ISBN: 1138796263     ISBN-13: 9781138796263
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $113.85  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: July 2014
Qty:
Temporarily out of stock - Will ship within 2 to 5 weeks
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Sociology - General
- Social Science | Emigration & Immigration
Dewey: 325.7
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.2" W x 9.2" (0.70 lbs) 120 pages
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:

Mass migrations, diasporas, dual citizenship arrangements, neoliberal economic reforms and global social justice movements have in recent decades produced shifting boundaries and meanings of citizenship within and beyond the Americas. In migrant-receiving countries, this has raised questions about extending rights to newcomers. In migrant-sending countries, it has prompted states to search for new ways to include their emigrant citizens into the nation state.

This book situates new practices of 'immigrant' and 'emigrant' citizenship, and the policies that both facilitate and delimit them, in a broader political-economic context. It shows how the ability of people to act as transnational citizens is mediated by inequalities along the axes of gender, race, nationality and class, both in and between source and destination countries, resulting in a plethora of possible relations between states and migrants. The volume provides cross-disciplinary and theoretically engaging discussions, as well as empirically diverse case studies from countries in Latin America and the Caribbean that have been transformed into 'emigrant states' in recent years, offering new concepts and theory for the study of transnational citizenship.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power.