{"product_id":"working-the-boundaries-9780822336150","title":"Working the Boundaries","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn ethnographic study of transnational migration, racialization, labor subordination, and citizenship in Chicago's Mexican migrant community\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Emphasizing a processual ethnographic approach that historicizes subjectivity, \u003ci\u003eWorking the Boundaries\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes transnational migration, racialization, class struggle, and state repression expressed through ‘illegality’ toward Mexicans in late-twentieth-century Chicago. Nicholas De Genova vividly renders ‘Mexican Chicago,’ where social relations are simultaneously imbricated in the U.S. political project of regulating labor and immigration and Mexican workers’ immersion in regional economies and politics in Mexico. His at times provocative assessments of current scholarship will engender further clarity in research and policy discussions about Mexican migration, contributing to American studies, Chicana\/o studies, and the ethnography of North America.”—Patricia Zavella, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eChicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this stunning ethnographic achievement, the Mexican workers of Chicago reinvent the city, the labor process, the United States, and ‘our America’ as a whole: a region that knows no borders. But at the same time the nation-state, the systems of law and politics, and their working lives confine and encumber them. \u003ci\u003eWorking the Boundaries\u003c\/i\u003e shows how much agency and insight are built into the realities of immigration, how limited and self-defeating are the core politics of U.S. nationalism and racism, and how powerful a weapon ethnography can be in the fight for freedom and justice. Nicholas De Genova has produced a book of great insight and beauty. Highly recommended!”—Howard Winant, author of \u003ci\u003eThe New Politics of Race: Globalism, Difference, Justice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Preface xv\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Working the Boundaries 1\u003cbr\u003e I. Politics of Knowledge\/Politics of Practice \u003cbr\u003e 1. Decolonizing Ethnography 13\u003cbr\u003e 2. The “Native’s Point of View”: Immigration and the Immigrant as Objects of U. S. Nationalism 56\u003cbr\u003e 3. Locating a Mexican Chicago in the Space of the U. S. Nation-State 95\u003cbr\u003e II. Everyday Life: The Location of Politics \u003cbr\u003e 4. The Politics of Production 147\u003cbr\u003e 5. Reracialization: Between “Americans” and Blacks 167\u003cbr\u003e III. Historicity: The Politics of Location \u003cbr\u003e 6. The Legal Production of Mexican\/Migrant “Illegality” 213\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion 251\u003cbr\u003e Notes 255\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 281\u003cbr\u003e Index 311","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406039261527,"sku":"9780822336150","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/working-the-boundaries-9780822336150","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}