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101284
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2010.
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This article draws on archival records of events in California's Imperial Valley in 1940 that resulted in the arrests and deportation of a group of Mexican workers, some of whom were known union activists. The workers had entered the country lawfully and had lived in the United States for years. These immigrants were nevertheless vulnerable because they were receiving treatment for a communicable disease. This, according to immigration officials, rendered them "likely to become a public charge" (LPC), a deportable offense. Officially designating Mexicans as LPCs discredited them at the same time that it circumvented any discussion of possible violation of labor rights or civil rights, both key aspects of government-sponsored reform efforts underway at the time. Constructions of subjects as illegal, diseased, and threats to the nation-state came together in such a way that provided a surefire formula for marking Mexicans as deportable.
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ID:
125914
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2013.
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This article argues that all conceptualisations of citizenship are vernacular. Drawing on ethnographic data from two related studies among Mexican immigrants in New York City, the author examines the lived meanings of citizenship and the centrality of (im)mobility in immigrant claims for the rights of citizenship. Citizenship is a contested notion in contemporary immigrant-receiving states. As the United States again debates immigration reform proposals, citizenship is cast as the ultimate prize, a privilege to be bestowed only on the most 'worthy'. Immigrant rights groups advocate for the granting of citizenship and likewise elevate its value and importance in their discourse. Yet, its shifting meanings and manipulation mean that it is not a guarantee of inclusion or rights. The notion of citizenship can simultaneously critique and reinforce neoliberal notions of the relationship between citizen and subject.
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059021
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086864
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2009.
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From afar, it looks your typical Staten Island suburban house, but as yor approach the Gonzalez home on Union Avenue, you are suddenly engulfed in the bouncy, polka-like Mexican nortena music coming out of the basement.
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085010
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