Nation and Migration

by Gutierrez, David G.; Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette

• ISBN13: 9780801892813
• ISBN10: 0801892813
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-05-27
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Summary

Much of the terrain in American studies has been transformed in recent years by a fundamental reconsideration of the relationship among capitalism, the nation-state, and human migration. Nation and Migration focuses on this disciplinary shift and offers a contemporary understanding of the transnational circulation of migrants and immigrants in a global economy.In the first section, contributors evaluate issues of citizenship and state power, examining the mechanisms through which immigrants are regulated, restricted, and disciplined by state institutions and agents. The next section presents differing perspectives on transnationalism. This discussion is followed by essays that address how migrants and migrant communities experience their tenuous positions. The concluding section analyzes literary representations of the entwined processes of imperialism, globalization, and transnational migration.Covering a broad range of nationalities and topics, the essays that make up this book suggest that there are many borders to cross in the new scholarship on nation and migration.

Author Biography

David G. Guti+¬rrez is a professor of history at the University of California, San Diego, and author of Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo is a professor and the director of graduate studies in the Department of Sociology at the University of Southern California and author of God's Heart Has No Borders: How Religious Activists Are Working for Immigrant Rights.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Citizenship and State Power
The Deportation Terror	p. 21
Immigration Enforcement and the Complication of National Sovereignty: Understanding Local Enforcement as an Exercise in Neoliberal Governance	p. 51
"Citizenship Matters": Lessons from the Irish Citizenship Referendum	p. 73
New Americans or Diasporic Nationalists? Mexican Migrant Responses to Naturalization and Implications for Political Participation	p. 99
Transnationalism
Transnationalism: A Category of Analysis	p. 123
The Birth of a European Public: Migration, Postnationality, and Race in the Uniting of Europe	p. 147
Enforcing Transnational White Solidarity: Asian Migration and the Formation of the U.S.-Canadian Boundary	p. 169
Migrant Experiences
Flexible Citizenship/Flexible Empire: South Asian Muslim Youth in Post-9/11 America	p. 195
Beyond Mexico: Guadalupan Sacred Space Production and Mobilization in a Chicago Suburb	p. 219
Mexican Nationalisms, Southern Racisms: Mexicans and Mexican Americans in the U.S. South, 1908-1939	p. 247
Unskilled Labor Migration and the Illegality Spiral: Chinese, European, and Mexican Indocumentados in the United States, 1882-2007	p. 277
Writing Migration
"World Menace": National Reproduction and Public Health in Katherine Mayo's Mother India	p. 303
Re-Producing a Nationalist Literature in the Age of Globalization: Reading (Im)migration in Julia Alvarez's How the García Girls Lost Their Accents	p. 327
Event Review
Police Riot on the Net: From "Citizen Journalism" to Comunicación Popular	p. 349
Contributors	p. 363
Index	p. 369
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