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Chicago is home to the second-largest Mexican immigrant population in the United States, yet the activities of this community have gone relatively unexamined by both the media and academia. In this groundbreaking new book, Xóchitl Bada takes us inside one of the most vital parts of Chicago's Mexican immigrant community—its many hometown associations. Hometown associations (HTAs) consist of immigrants from the same town in Mexico and often begin quite informally, as soccer clubs or prayer groups. As Bada's work shows, however, HTAs have become a powerful force for change, advocating for Mexican immigrants in the United States while also working to improve living conditions in their communities of origin. Focusing on a group of HTAs founded by immigrants from the state of Michoacán, the book shows how their activism has bridged public and private spheres, mobilizing social reforms in both inner-city Chicago and rural Mexico. Bringing together ethnography, political theory, and archival research, Bada excavates the surprisingly long history of Chicago's HTAs, dating back to the 1920s, then traces the emergence of new models of community activism in the twenty-first century. Filled with vivid observations and original interviews, Mexican Hometown Associations in Chicagoacán gives voice to an underrepresented community and sheds light on an underexplored form of global activism

This article focuses on the history and current situation of Mexican hometown associations (HTAs) in the United States with a special emphasis on Chicago-based Mexican hometown associations and federations. It presents empirical evidence of new forms of binational engagement among Mexican migrant communities in the United States leading to the creation of a Mexican migrant civil society.

This article focuses on the history and current situation of Mexican hometown associations (HTAs) in the United States with a special emphasis on Chicago-based Mexican hometown associations and federations. It presents empirical evidence of new forms of binational engagement among Mexican migrant communities in the United States leading to the creation of a Mexican migrant civil society.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Contributors -- An Interdisciplinary Introduction to Transnational Studies -- Section 1 Epistemological Principles and Transnational Methodologies -- 1 The Twilight of Transnational Migration Studies in a Conjuncture of Dispossession: An Epistemological Approach -- 2 Expanding the Critical Knowledge Potential of Transnational Migration Research: How to Study 'Doing Migration' at the Intersection of Multiple Colonialities? -- 3 What is New About Transnational Inequality? -- Section 2 Transnational Migrant Practices, Remittances, and Transfers -- 4 Migrant Transnational Political Engagement -- 5 Remittances, Transnationalism, and the Making of Migrant Financial Inclusion Across North America -- 6 Return Mobility and Transnational Intangible Transfers: The Case of Central and Eastern Europe -- Section 3 Mobilities, Identities, and Power Structures -- 7 Second-Generation Transnational Return Mobilities -- 8 Gendered State Interests and Marriage Migration Policies: The Philippines and South Korea -- 9 White Capital: A Transnational Story -- Section 4 Social Security, Social Protection, and Health -- 10 Labyrinths of Transnational Social Protection -- 11 Bringing the Transnational into Social Work -- 12 Diasporic Bureaucracies and Transnational Social Rights: A Mexican Health Policy in New York City -- 13 Transnational Medical Mobilities -- Section 5 Organizations and Social Movements -- 14 Social Movements, Transnational Struggles, and Cross-National Diffusion: Three Waves of Research -- 15 Transnational Labor Activism: The International Labor Movement and Beyond -- 16 Transnational Migrant Organizations -- Section 6 Culture, Religion, and the Arts -- 17 Contemporary Art and Transnational Artivisms in the Americas.

The Routledge International Handbook of Transnational Studies offers a comprehensive overview of the dynamic evolution and the most recent debates in this interdisciplinary field. The collection assembles scholarship from the social sciences and the humanities that share a critical perspective extending beyond the nation-state. The contributions investigate sustained connections, events, and activities across state borders and acknowledge prevailing global power asymmetries. The handbook examines the dynamics of transnational processes across seven main themes: epistemological and methodological principles; transnational migrant practices and family remittances; mobilities and (self-)identities; social protection; organizations and social movements; culture, religion, and the arts; and architecture and urban planning. The contributors engage with theoretical developments and analyze empirical cases involving a wide array of critical contemporary topics such as expatriate voting, first- and second-generation return migration, state-sponsored cross-border marriages, access to health care, transnational social work, global religious aesthetics, transnational art corridors, literary translation, remittance-financed architecture, and transnational processes of real estate development and gentrification, among others. They display a series of cross-cutting approaches including postcolonial theory, racism, and gender, and a focus on agency, state policies and macro-structures, and transnational inequalities. This book features multidisciplinary scholars in transnational studies from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Finland, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Poland, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This handbook will be of interest to scholars interested in global and transnational perspectives across a wide range of disciplines. It will serve as a key resource for academics, students, and other interested audiences seeking to familiarize themselves with the study of contemporary issues that cross state borders.

Introduction : enforcing rights across borders / Shannon Gleeson and Xóchitl Bada -- Mexican migrant civil society : propositions for discussion / Jonathan Fox and Gaspar Rivera-Salgado -- pt.1. North America -- Global governance and the protection of migrant workers' rights in North America : in search of a theoretical framework / José Ma. Serna de la Garza -- The North American agreement on labor cooperation and the challenges to protecting low-wage migrant workers / Xóchitl Bada and Shannon Gleeson -- pt. 2. Mexico -- Mexican migrant federalism and transnational rights advocacy / Adriana Sletza Ortega Ramírez -- Rebuilding justice we can all trust : the plight of migrant victims / Ana Lorena Delgadillo, Alma García, and Rodolfo Córdova Alcaraz -- With dual citizenship comes double exclusion: US-Mexican children and their struggle to access rights in Mexico / Mónica Jacobo-Suárez -- pt. 3. Canada -- Transnational labor solidarity versus state-managed coercion : UFCW Canada, Mexico, and the seasonal agricultural workers program / Andrea Galvez, Pablo Godoy, and Paul Meinema -- Assembling noncitizen access to education in a sanctuary city : the place of public school administrator bordering practices / Patricia Landolt and Luin Goldring -- pt. 4. United states -- Indigenous Maya families from Yucatán in San Francisco : hemispheric mobility and pedagogies of diaspora / Patricia Baquedano-López -- Binational health week : a social mobilization program to improve Latino migrant health / Liliana Osorio, Hilda Dávila, and Xóchitl Castañeda -- American in every way, except for their papers : how Mexico supports migrants' access to membership in the United States / Alexandra Délano Alonso -- Epilogue: theorizing state-society relations in a multiscalar context / Shannon Gleeson and Xóchitl Bada

The spring, 2006 wave of immigrant rights mobilizations represents a watershed in the history of civic engagement in the US. Never before had so many foreign born literally "come out" for the right to be included in the US. Indeed, in many cities, never before had so many taken to the streets for any cause. Practitioners involved in the policy debate, scholars who measure immigrant political opinion, as well as migrant leaders themselves were all caught off guard. This raises questions about the social foundations of the marches – what kinds of social and civic practices, networks and organizations made them possible? To provide at least part of the answer, this chapter introduces the concepts of "civic binationality" and "migrant civil society," which provide frameworks for understanding the already-existing patterns of migrant organization that came together at this unusual historical turning point. "Civic binationality" refers to practices that are engaged both with US civic life and with migrants' communities and countries of origin. The related concept of "migrant civil society" refers to migrant-led membership organizations and public institutions (which may not be engaged with communities of origin). The goal of this latter concept is to underscore the significance of migrant capacity for self-representation. The recognition of practices of migrant civic binationality, grounded in an emerging migrant civil society, helps us to understand the patterns of civic engagement and repertoires of action that inform migrant participation in US society. The point of departure here is that, at least for many adult migrants, their initiation into civic life either takes place in their country of origin, or is oriented toward their country of origin. As many analysts of civic engagement have long noted, the best predictor of civic involvement of any kind is past involvement –even if in a completely different arena. 1Apparently, some people are more likely to be joiners than others – across cultures. From this perspective, the kind of civic engagement witnessed on a mass scale in the spring of 2006 was in part grounded in longstanding, often low profile practices of migrant civic binationality. At the same time, the 2006 marches constitute a powerful indicator that millions of immigrants have also been fully transplanted into the US public sphere, followed by subsequent increases in naturalization and voter turnout among "new Americans"in 2008.

"This handbook presents a collection of essays including the development of crucial contributions to sociological debates in Latin America over the last 80 years, the period in which the sociology discipline became institutionalized in the region. The sociology of Latin America is a thriving field whose major contributions include Dependence theory, World-systems theory, historical debates on economic development, among others. This handbook offers research essays that introduce the readers to the main assessments of the discipline's key areas and current trends, specifically with regard to contemporary sociology in Latin America, as well as a collection of innovative empirical studies deploying a variety of qualitative and quantitative methodologies. The handbook is organized in eight subfields in which the most significant theoretical and methodological contributions are being made. These include studies in classical areas of sociology, such as sociology of inequalities, sociology of religions, and the well-established sociology of the state, collective action and social movements. The sociology of migrations in Latin America, which has rapidly consolidated into a specialized subfield in the region, provides analytical and conceptual categories that offer alternative theories. This collection also offers a group of sociological studies in diverse fields such as sociology of gender, medical sociology, and sociology of violence. Due to the deterioration of social and economic conditions, as well as recent disruptions to an already tense political environment, these have become some of the most productive and important fields in the sociology of the region. This roiling sociopolitical atmosphere also generates new and innovative expressions of protest and survival, which are being explored by sociologists across different continents today. The essays included in this collection presents a guided map and a thematic articulation to central sociological debates that introduces readers to contemporary sociology in Latin America"--

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