Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and Illegality in Mexican Chicago

by Nicholas De Genova

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While Chicago has the second-largest Mexican population among U.S. cities, relatively little ethnographic attention has focused on its Mexican community. This much-needed ethnography of Mexicans living and working in Chicago examines processes of racialization, labor subordination, and class formation; the politics of nativism; and the structures of citizenship and immigration law. Nicholas De Genova develops a theory of "Mexican Chicago" as a transnational...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822336154

ISBN13:9780822336150

Release Date:October 2005

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:352 Pages

Weight:1.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Related Subjects

Cultural Hispanic American Studies Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics

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