Working the boundaries : race, space, and "illegality" in Mexican Chicago /

Nicholas De Genova provides an ethnographic study of transnational migration, racialization, labor subordination and citizenship in Chicago's Mexican migrant community.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	De Genova, Nicholas
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press, 2005.
Subjects:	Mexican Americans > Illinois > Chicago > Social conditions. Mexicans > Illinois > Chicago > Social conditions. Immigrants > Illinois > Chicago > Social conditions. Illegal aliens > Illinois > Chicago > Social conditions. Chicago (Ill.) > Race relations. Chicago (Ill.) > Emigration and immigration. Mexico > Emigration and immigration. Nationalism > United States. United States > Emigration and immigration > Political aspects. Mexican Americans > Study and teaching.
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of 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."