Transnational Citizenship Across the Americas
Mass migrations, diasporas, dual citizenship arrangements, neoliberal economic reforms and global social justice movements have in recent decades produced shifting boundaries and meanings of citizenship within and beyond the Americas. In migrant-receiving countries, this has raised questions about extending rights to newcomers. In migrant-sending countries, it has prompted states to search for new ways to include their emigrant citizens into the nation state.
This book situates new practices of immigrant and emigrant citizenship, and the policies that both facilitate and delimit them, in a broader politicaleconomic context. It shows how the ability of people to act as transnational citizens is mediated by inequalities along the axes of gender, race, nationality and class, both in and between source and destination countries, resulting in a plethora of possible relations between states and migrants. The volume provides cross-disciplinary and theoretically engaging discussions, as well as empirically diverse case studies from countries in Latin America and the Caribbean that have been transformed into emigrant states in recent years, offering new concepts and theory for the study of transnational citizenship.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power.
Ulla Dalum Berg is Assistant Professor of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies and Anthropology at Rutgers University, USA. Her research focuses on migration, transnationalism, media, ritual and performance in Latin America and the US. Her work has appeared in Latino Studies, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latin American Perspectives, and Identities.
Robyn Magalit Rodriguez is Associate Professor in Asian American Studies at the University of California Davis, USA. She is the author of Migrants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World (2010) and coauthor with Pawan Dhingra of Asian America: Sociological and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2014).
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Contents
Ulla Dalum Berg and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez
Carlos Vargas-Ramos
Connie McGuire and Susan Bibler Coutin
Georges E. Fouron
Alyshia Glvez
Robyn Magalit Rodriguez
The chapters in this book were originally published in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power , volume 20, issue 6 (December 2013). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1
Introduction: Transnational citizenship across the Americas
Ulla Dalum Berg and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez
Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power , volume 20, issue 6 (December 2013) pp. 649-664
Chapter 2
Puerto Ricans: citizens and migrants a cautionary tale
Carlos Vargas-Ramos
Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power , volume 20, issue 6 (December 2013) pp. 665-688
Chapter 3
Transnational alienage and foreignness: deportees and Foreign Service Officers in Central America
Connie McGuire and Susan Bibler Coutin
Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power , volume 20, issue 6 (December 2013) pp. 689-704
Chapter 4
Race, blood, disease and citizenship: the making of the Haitian-Americans and the Haitian immigrants into the others during the 1980s1990s AIDS crisis
Georges E. Fouron
Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power , volume 20, issue 6 (December 2013) pp. 705-719
Chapter 5
Immigrant citizenship: neoliberalism, immobility and the vernacular meanings of citizenship
Alyshia Glvez
Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power , volume 20, issue 6 (December 2013) pp. 720-737
Chapter 6
Beyond citizenship: emergent forms of political subjectivity amongst migrants
Robyn Magalit Rodriguez
Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power , volume 20, issue 6 (December 2013) pp. 738-754
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Ulla Dalum Berg is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies and Anthropology at Rutgers University, USA.
Susan Bibler Coutin is Professor in the Departments of Criminology Law and Society and Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, USA.
Georges E. Fouron is Professor in the Africana Studies Department at Stony Brook University, USA.
Alyshia Glvez is Associate Professor in the Department of Latin American, Latino, and Puerto Rican Studies at Lehman College of the City University of New York, USA.
Connie McGuire is Postdoctoral Scholar with the Community Knowledge Project in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, USA.
Robyn Magalit Rodriquez is Associate Professor in Asian American Studies at University of California Davis, USA.
Carlos Vargas-Ramos is Research Associate at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College (CUNY), USA.
Ulla Dalum Berg and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez
A variety of phenomena including mass migrations, diasporas, dual citizenship arrangements, neoliberal economic reforms and global social justice movements have since the 1970s produced shifting boundaries and meanings of citizenship within and beyond the Americas. This special issue builds upon, but also extends, prior discussions on transnational citizenship, by situating new practices of immigrant and emigrant citizenship and the policies that both facilitate and delimit them in a broader politicaleconomic context and accounts for how new forms of neoliberal governance shape such practices. The essays included here draw from a range of disciplines and inter-disciplinary perspectives that focus on migration between the United States and countries in Latin America and the Caribbean which in recent years have been transformed into emigrant states.
