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Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and 'Illegality' in Mexican Chicago,New
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While Chicago has the secondlargest Mexican population among U.S. cities, relatively little ethnographic attention has focused on its Mexican community. This muchneeded ethnography of Mexicans living and working in Chicago examines processes of racialization, labor subordination, and class formation; the politics of nativism; and the structures of citizenship and immigration law. Nicholas De Genova develops a theory of Mexican Chicago as a transnational social and geographic space that joins Chicago to innumerable communities throughout Mexico. Mexican Chicago is a powerful analytical tool, a challenge to the way that social scientists have thought about immigration and pluralism in the United States, and the basis for a wideranging critique of U.S. notions of race, national identity, and citizenship.De Genova worked for two and a half years as a teacher of English in ten industrial workplaces (primarily metalfabricating factories) throughout Chicago and its suburbs. In Working the Boundaries he draws on fieldwork conducted in these factories, in community centers, and in the homes and neighborhoods of Mexican migrants. He describes how the meaning of Mexican is refigured and racialized in relation to a U.S. social order dominated by a blackwhite binary. Delving into immigration law, he contends that immigration policies have worked over time to produce Mexicans as the U.S. nationstates iconic illegal aliens. He explains how the constant threat of deportation is used to keep Mexican workers in line. Working the Boundaries is a major contribution to theories of race and transnationalism and a scathing indictment of U.S. labor and citizenship policies.
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