Michael Peter Smith and Matt Bakker spent five years carrying
out ethnographic field research in multiple communities in the
Mexican states of Zacatecas and Guanajuato and various cities in
California, particularly metropolitan Los Angeles. Combining the
information they gathered there with political-economic and
institutional analysis, the five extended case studies in
Citizenship across Borders offer a new way of looking at the
emergent dynamics of transnational community development and
electoral politics on both sides of the border.
Smith and Bakker highlight the continuing significance of
territorial identifications and state policies particularly those
of the sending state in cultivating and sustaining transnational
connections and practices. In so doing, they contextualize and make
sense of the complex interplay of identity and loyalty in the lives
of transnational migrant activists. In contrast to high-profile
warnings of the dangers to national cultures and political
institutions brought about by long-distance nationalism and dual
citizenship, Citizenship across Borders demonstrates that, far from
undermining loyalty and diminishing engagement in U.S. political
life, the practice of dual citizenship by Mexican migrants actually
provides a sense of empowerment that fosters migrants' active civic
engagement in American as well as Mexican politics."
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