Citizenship Across Borders by Michael Peter Smith, Matt Bakker - 9780801473906

Citizenship Across BordersThe Political Transnationalism of El Migrante\nAuthor(s): Michael Peter Smith, Matt Bakker\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9780801473906, 978-0801473906\nSynopsis\nMichael 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 policiesparticularly those of the sending statein cultivating and sustaining transnat.