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| ISBN: | 9780520942479
0520942477
9780520257047
0520257049
9780520257054
0520257057
1282360744
9781282360747
9786612360749
6612360747
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| Digital file characteristics: | text file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-234) and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | What do governments do when much of their population simply gets up and walks away? In Mexico and other migrant-sending countries, mass emigration prompts governments to negotiate a new social contract with their citizens abroad. After decades of failed efforts to control outflow, the Mexican state now emphasizes voluntary ties, dual nationality, and rights over obligations. In this groundbreaking book, David Fitzgerald examines a region of Mexico whose citizens have been migrating to the United States for more than a century. He finds that emigrant citizenship does not signal the decline of the nation-state but does lead to a new form of citizenship, and that bureaucratic efforts to manage emigration and its effects are based on the membership model of the Catholic Church.
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| Other form: | Print version: Fitzgerald, David, 1972- Nation of emigrants. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2009 9780520257047
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