A01=David FitzGerald
american immigration
Author_David FitzGerald
Category=JBFH
catholic church
catholicism
christianity
citizens abroad
control outflow
dual nationality
emigrant citizenship
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government and governing
immigration and immigrants
international migration
mass emigration
mexican government
mexican state
migrant sending countries
migrant sending states
nation state
new form of citizenship
political
political sociology
politics
religion
rights over obligations
social contract
united states of america
voluntary ties
Product details
- ISBN 9780520257054
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 02 Dec 2008
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
David Fitzgerald is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego.
