Specters of Belonging: The Political Life Cycle of Mexican Migrants: Studies in Subaltern Latina/o Politics
Autor Adrián Félixen Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 ian 2019
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780190879372
ISBN-10: 0190879378
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 234 x 155 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Seria Studies in Subaltern Latina/o Politics
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0190879378
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 234 x 155 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Seria Studies in Subaltern Latina/o Politics
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Recenzii
In addition to its scholarly value, this book will be useful for policy makers interested in how immigration policies can make participation in civic lives on both sides of the border easier and more robust. Félix's work is both timely and necessary.
The book adds a new layer to critiques of citizenship...Written with passion and references to a wide range of materials, including songs, Mexican proverbs, and personal experiences, Félix's study weaves in the politics and the poetics of belonging, giving his analysis a depth and complexity that are much needed in transnational studies.
The life cycle is an evocative metaphor to capture the changing nature of migrant politics...By definition, life cycles conclude with death, and Félix pays attention to the choices migrants make around end-of-life ritualsThose choices are spiritual and personal, but they are also deeply political...by calling attention to migrant tenacity, he draws readers' attention to the many barriers to acting or feeling transnationally that migrants struggle against and shows how they do so at an intimate scale.
...Félix provides a riveting ethnographic account that grounds new conceptual frameworks and methodologies for studying not only political membership of Mexican migrants but also transnationality...The book thus serves as both poetic narrative and political analysis...Concepts such as diasporic dialectics spring organically from these ethnographic encounters and from the words and practices of his research participants...The strength of this book comes from the author's intimate understanding of shifting, multifaceted borders...the important part of the research is in fact the 'accompaniment,' the use of ethnography to break down the very borders the author is interrogating, including those across the academic/activist divide.
Specters of Belonging shows how Mexican migrants create cross-border collective identities, in response to their exclusion from civic and political life in both the US and Mexico. Deeply grounded in historical and cultural context, Adrián Félixâs vivid and compelling political ethnography deploys the lens of political life cycles to analyze how migrants come to exercise political voice and collective action in both societies, as their search for belonging drives the construction of civic binationality.
The political engagement of international migrants remains a key social issue, and in this beautifully crafted study, political scientist Adrián Félix sheds new light on the transnational political life of Mexican immigrants. In a uniquely poetic voice, Félix presents riveting ethnographic portraits with imaginative critical analysis, and reminding us that change is constant, introduces a new conceptual arsenal that will advance our understanding of political transformations over the life course. Imaginative and insightful, this book will be of interest to all concerned with migrant politics in these troubling times of hardened borders and exclusions.
With this luminous study, Adrián Félix puts the flesh back on the bones of that dehumanizing fiction, the economic migrant. In lyrical, deeply researched ethnographic and political analysis, Félix captures the ardent efforts of Mexican migrants to remake the repressive structures of border governance and unitary citizenship. Waging what he calls a diasporic dialectics, transborder communities have devised forms of collective power that mitigate the harms of racial and class hostilities, criminalization and social expulsion. The author's attentiveness to the shifting patterns of civic engagement over the migrant's political life course makes this account of Mexican migrant transnationality a vital intervention into the theoretical impasse reached by current immigration debates.
The book adds a new layer to critiques of citizenship...Written with passion and references to a wide range of materials, including songs, Mexican proverbs, and personal experiences, Félix's study weaves in the politics and the poetics of belonging, giving his analysis a depth and complexity that are much needed in transnational studies.
The life cycle is an evocative metaphor to capture the changing nature of migrant politics...By definition, life cycles conclude with death, and Félix pays attention to the choices migrants make around end-of-life ritualsThose choices are spiritual and personal, but they are also deeply political...by calling attention to migrant tenacity, he draws readers' attention to the many barriers to acting or feeling transnationally that migrants struggle against and shows how they do so at an intimate scale.
...Félix provides a riveting ethnographic account that grounds new conceptual frameworks and methodologies for studying not only political membership of Mexican migrants but also transnationality...The book thus serves as both poetic narrative and political analysis...Concepts such as diasporic dialectics spring organically from these ethnographic encounters and from the words and practices of his research participants...The strength of this book comes from the author's intimate understanding of shifting, multifaceted borders...the important part of the research is in fact the 'accompaniment,' the use of ethnography to break down the very borders the author is interrogating, including those across the academic/activist divide.
Specters of Belonging shows how Mexican migrants create cross-border collective identities, in response to their exclusion from civic and political life in both the US and Mexico. Deeply grounded in historical and cultural context, Adrián Félixâs vivid and compelling political ethnography deploys the lens of political life cycles to analyze how migrants come to exercise political voice and collective action in both societies, as their search for belonging drives the construction of civic binationality.
The political engagement of international migrants remains a key social issue, and in this beautifully crafted study, political scientist Adrián Félix sheds new light on the transnational political life of Mexican immigrants. In a uniquely poetic voice, Félix presents riveting ethnographic portraits with imaginative critical analysis, and reminding us that change is constant, introduces a new conceptual arsenal that will advance our understanding of political transformations over the life course. Imaginative and insightful, this book will be of interest to all concerned with migrant politics in these troubling times of hardened borders and exclusions.
With this luminous study, Adrián Félix puts the flesh back on the bones of that dehumanizing fiction, the economic migrant. In lyrical, deeply researched ethnographic and political analysis, Félix captures the ardent efforts of Mexican migrants to remake the repressive structures of border governance and unitary citizenship. Waging what he calls a diasporic dialectics, transborder communities have devised forms of collective power that mitigate the harms of racial and class hostilities, criminalization and social expulsion. The author's attentiveness to the shifting patterns of civic engagement over the migrant's political life course makes this account of Mexican migrant transnationality a vital intervention into the theoretical impasse reached by current immigration debates.
Notă biografică
Adrián Félix is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California Riverside.