Latinos and Citizenship: The Dilemma of Belonging

✍ Scribed by Suzanne Oboler (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 341
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book explores the extent to which the varied political status of Latinos is changing the meaning of citizenship and belonging in the United States. It brings together broad theoretical considerations of citizenship with discussions of historical and contemporary case studies pertaining to Latinos and current debates on citizenship. Focusing on Latinos' historical and continuing struggles against exclusion, the authors of this anthology discuss issues such as Latinos' multiple national allegiances, dual citizenship, the changing meaning(s) of belonging, their transnational political and social participation, the question of language and citizenship, regional cultural citizenship and loyalties, and the mobilization of Latino youth in their struggle to affirm their rights and belonging in US society.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Redefining Citizenship as a Lived Experience....Pages 3-30
Front Matter....Pages 31-31
“How They Ignore Our Rights as American Citizens”: Puerto Rican Migrants and the Politics of Citizenship in the New Deal Era....Pages 33-58
Front Matter....Pages 59-59
The Legal Production of Mexican/Migrant “Illegality”....Pages 61-90
Regulating Transnational Citizens in the Post-1996 Welfare Reform Era: Dominican Immigrants in New York City....Pages 91-112
Dual Citizenship and Political Participation: Migrants in the Interplay of United States and Colombian Politics....Pages 113-141
Roads to Citizenship: Mexican Migrants in the United States....Pages 143-165
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Boundaries, Language, and the Self: Issues Faced by Puerto Ricans and Other Latino/a College Students....Pages 169-190
Necesidades y Problemas: Immigrant Latina Vernaculars of Belonging, Coalition, and Citizenship in San Francisco, California....Pages 191-217
“Getting out the Vote” in Los Angeles: The Mobilization of Undocumented Migrants in Electoral Politics....Pages 219-246
“Wise up!” Undocumented Latino Youth, Mexican-American Legislators, and the Struggle for Higher Education Access....Pages 247-272
Front Matter....Pages 273-273
Delinquent Citizenship, National Performances: Racialization, Surveillance, and the Politics of “`Worthiness” in Puerto Rican Chicago....Pages 275-300
Transforming Citizenship: Membership, Strategies of Containment, and the Public Sphere in Latino Communities....Pages 301-327
Back Matter....Pages 329-339

✦ Subjects

Latin American Culture;Political Science;Human Rights