A nation of emigrants : how Mexico manages its migration / David Fitzgerald.
What do governments do when much of their population simply gets up and walks away? In Mexico and other migrant-sending countries, mass emigration prompts governments to negotiate a new social contract with their citizens abroad. After decades of failed efforts to control outflow, the Mexican state...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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University of California Press,
c2009.
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| Summary: | What do governments do when much of their population simply gets up and walks away? In Mexico and other migrant-sending countries, mass emigration prompts governments to negotiate a new social contract with their citizens abroad. After decades of failed efforts to control outflow, the Mexican state now emphasizes voluntary ties, dual nationality, and rights over obligations. In this groundbreaking book, David Fitzgerald examines a region of Mexico whose citizens have been migrating to the United States for more than a century. He finds that emigrant citizenship does not signal the decline of the nation-state but does lead to a new form of citizenship, and that bureaucratic efforts to manage emigration and its effects are based on the membership model of the Catholic Church. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 243 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-234) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520942479 0520942477 1282360744 9781282360747 9786612360749 6612360747 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |