Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-242) and index.
Contents
The politics of transnational citizenship -- Reconstructing the migrant in Mexican state-policy discourse -- The regional state and the politics of translocality : the Napa-El Timbinal connection -- The social construction of "migrant-led productive investment" -- Transnational electoral politics : the multiple coronations of the "Tomato King" -- Institutionalizing new spaces for migrant political agency : votar y ser votado in Mexico -- The second face of transnational citizenship : migrant activists recross the border -- The boundaries of citizenship : transnational power revisited -- Appendix : transnational ethnography : methods, fieldwork, and subjects.