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Author De Genova, Nicholas, author.

Title Working the boundaries : race, space, and "illegality" in Mexican Chicago / Nicholas De Genova
Published Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 329 pages) : map
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents Introduction : working the boundaries -- Decolonizing ethnography -- The "native's point of view" : immigration and the immigrant as objects of U.S. nationalism -- Locating a Mexican Chicago in the space of the U.S. nation-state -- The politics of production -- Reracialization : between "Americans" and Blacks -- The legal production of Mexican/migrant "illegality."
Summary Nicholas De Genova provides an ethnographic study of transnational migration, racialisation, labour subordination and citizenship in Chicago's Mexican migrant community
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-309) and index
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Subject Mexican Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions
Mexicans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions
Immigrants -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions
Noncitizens -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions
Nationalism -- United States
Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects.
Mexican Americans -- Study and teaching.
Illegal immigration -- Illinois -- Chicago
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Illegal immigration
Emigration and immigration
Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects
Noncitizens -- Social conditions
Immigrants -- Social conditions
Mexican Americans -- Social conditions
Mexican Americans -- Study and teaching
Mexicans -- Social conditions
Race relations
Nationalism
Soziale Integration
Ethnische Beziehungen
Einwanderung
Ethnische Identität
SUBJECT Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations
Chicago (Ill.) -- Emigration and immigration
Mexico -- Emigration and immigration
Subject Illinois -- Chicago
Mexico
United States
Chicago, Ill.
Chicanos.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822387091
0822387093