Academic Literature - Migration and Globalization

Communications Landscaping – North and Latin American Transnational Communities

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Migration and Globalization

Studies on migratory movements today: present characteristics, impact, migratory policies, contexts, trends, and patterns

• From Market Membership To Transnational Citizenship? The Changing Politization Of Transnational Social Spaces
  By: Luin Goldring
  Lenguage: English
  
  This article takes a look at cross-border citizenship practices at the subnational level, focusing on the Mexico-oriented practices of Mexicans organized in home-town clubs in Los Angeles who are from the province of Zacatecas. My argument is that practices that represent claims of belonging and membership, such as participation in hometown associations and their "community" projects, are a form of everyday or substantive citizenship that contribute to the renegotiation of relations between Mexicans abroad and the Mexican state. Transmigrant groups, like many others in Mexican civil society, are attempting to alter their relationship to the state. In this case the shift is from membership based on economic contributions (remittances, investment, home-town projects) and political lobbying in the U.S., to a conception of embership that includes political rights in Mexico —and thus is not limited to citizens who habitually reside within the national territory. In the absence of a good term for this kind of state-em/migrant society relationship, I will make do with transnational or extraterritorialized citizenship.

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