Specters of Belonging: The Political Life Cycle of Mexican Migrants

ISBN-13: 9780190879372 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 200 str.

Adrian Felix

Recenzje

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.

O autorze

Adrián Félix is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California Riverside.