Beschreibung:
An ethnographic study of transnational migration, racialization, labor subordination, and citizenship in Chicago's Mexican migrant community.
Acknowledgments ixPreface xvIntroduction: Working the Boundaries 1I. Politics of Knowledge/Politics of Practice1. Decolonizing Ethnography 132. The “Native’s Point of View”: Immigration and the Immigrant as Objects of U. S. Nationalism 563. Locating a Mexican Chicago in the Space of the U. S. Nation-State 95II. Everyday Life: The Location of Politics4. The Politics of Production 1475. Reracialization: Between “Americans” and Blacks 167III. Historicity: The Politics of Location6. The Legal Production of Mexican/Migrant “Illegality” 213Conclusion 251Notes 255Bibliography 281Index 311