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125911
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2013.
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This article addresses the transformations in migrant political behaviour as people move between countries and how citizenship is exercised in the process. It highlights the limits of formal citizenship in the exercise of membership rights in given political communities. Using survey data from a probability sample drawn from a municipality in Puerto Rico, evidence shows how political activity decreases when circular migrants sojourn in the United States, a country in which they are citizens, but it is indistinguishable from non-migrants when in Puerto Rico. While these US citizens remain at the margin of the political system in the US, they are fully engaged in Puerto Rico's. Citizenship may be a necessary condition to exercise rights of political membership, but it is not enough. A laissez-faire disposition from state and political institutions and an emphasis on individual-based efforts sidelines newcomers to migrant-receiving polities.
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091675
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2009.
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This essay examines the power-evasive reduction of "race," racial conflict, and racial subordination from the terrain of the social, material, and structural to the "private" realm of affect and emotions, in an effort to explain how neoliberalism operates in the everyday lives of U.S.-born Latino and Latin American migrant youth, particularly, young, working-class Puerto Rican and Brazilian women in Newark, New Jersey. A main argument of this project is that urban neoliberalism has been complicit in generating new racial configurations in the United States and that, in the case of populations of Latin American and Spanish-speaking Caribbean backgrounds, such articulations of difference have deployed a variation of "racial democracy" ideologies. This "cartography of racial democracy" gives credence to denunciations of racism or racial subordination as long as they are launched in the realm of intimate relationships and attraction-as aspects of "affect" or an "urban erotics"-that frequently overshadows and flattens the structures of urban neoliberalism that require that individual worth is measured in relation to how one "packages" oneself culturally to be profitable.
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