Fluid Borders: Latino Power, Identity, and Politics in Los Angeles. By Lisa García Bedolla. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2005
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 112, Heft 5, S. 1598-1599
ISSN: 1537-5390
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In: The American journal of sociology, Band 112, Heft 5, S. 1598-1599
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: International migration review: IMR, Band 40, Heft 2, S. 259-293
ISSN: 1747-7379, 0197-9183
The social science of international migration has generally ignored labor emigration control policies. In the critical case of Mexico, however, the central government consistently tried to control the volume, duration, skills, and geographic origin of emigrants from 1900 to the early 1970s. A neopluralist approach to policy development and implementation shows that the failure of emigration control and the current abandonment of serious emigration restrictions are explained by a combination of external constraints, imposed by a highly asymmetrical interdependence with the United States, and internal constraints, imposed by actors within the balkanized Mexican state who recurrently undermined federal emigration policy through contradictory local practices.
In: Qualitative sociology, Band 29, Heft 1, S. 1-24
ISSN: 1573-7837
In: International migration review: IMR, Band 40, Heft 2, S. 259-293
ISSN: 0197-9183
In: Journal of ethnic and migration studies: JEMS, Band 31, Heft 1, S. 171-191
ISSN: 1469-9451
In: Journal of ethnic and migration studies: JEMS, Band 31, Heft 1, S. 171-192
ISSN: 1369-183X
In: Diaspora: a journal of transnational studies, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 101-109
ISSN: 1911-1568
In: Nationalism and ethnic politics, Band 9, Heft 2, S. 133-135
ISSN: 1353-7113
In: Nationalism and ethnic politics, Band 9, Heft 2, S. 133-134
ISSN: 1353-7113
The controversial notion of 'transnationalism' has generated new insights into international migrants' ongoing ties with their communities of origin that are unexplained by crude versions of the assimilation paradigm. However, the problematic conceptualization of 'transnationalism' and its vague usage in empirical studies needlessly inhibit the transnational perspective's utility. Understanding the political and economic incorporation of migrants in both their communities of origin and destination is facilitated by disaggregating the types of political borders, types of nationalism, and levels of identification that have been conflated in the framework of 'transnationalism'. I demonstrate the analytic value of these distinctions by using them to interpret evidence from a six-month ethnographic case study of an immigrant labor union in Southern California. A theoretically coherent typology applicable to both the case study and other migration settings provides a framework for explaining how institutions incorporate migrants into U.S. and local politics while simultaneously promoting cross-border ties. I argue labor migrants engage in cross-border activities as a defensive reaction against the discrimination to which they are subjected qua 'foreigners' and because cross-border networks are a strategic resource for attaining status and material benefits both 'here' and 'there'.
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In: Journal of ethnic and migration studies, Band 31, Heft 2005, S. 171-192
[4], 35 p. ; Reproduction of original in Cambridge University Lirary.
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In: International migration review: IMR, Band 56, Heft 3, S. 987-988
ISSN: 1747-7379, 0197-9183
In: Journal of ethnic and migration studies: JEMS, Band 46, Heft 1, S. 4-22
ISSN: 1469-9451
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 124, Heft 3, S. 952-954
ISSN: 1537-5390