Transnational Citizenship Across the Americas

Name: Transnational Citizenship Across the Americas
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Transnational Citizenship Across the AmericasAuthor(s): Ulla Berg, Robyn Rodriguez\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138796263, 978-1138796263\nSynopsis\nMass migrations, diasporas, dual citizenship arrangements, neoliberal economic reforms and global social justice movements have in recent decades produced shifting boundaries and meanings of citizenship within and beyond the Americas. In migrant-receiving countries, this has raised questions about extending rights to newcomers. In migrant-sending countries, it has prompted states to search for new ways to include their emigrant citizens into the nation state. \n\nThis book situates new practices of immigrant and emigrant citizenship, and the policies that both facilitate and delimit them, in a broader politicaleconomic context. It shows how the ability of people to act as transnational citizens is mediated by inequalities along the axes of gender, race, nationali.