Between Two Nations : : The Political Predicament of Latinos in New York City / / Michael Jones-Correa.
Immigrants come to the United States from all over Latin America in search of better lives. They obtain residency status, find jobs, pay taxes, and they have children who are American citizens by birth; yet decades may go by before they seek citizenship for themselves or become active participants i...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 22 tables, 7 charts, 2 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Maps and Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The New Hispanic Immigration
- I. Setting The Context
- 1. Intimate Strangers: Immigration to Queens
- 2. Participation in the American Polity: Why Citizenship Matters
- 3. Explaining Participation: Why It Takes So Long to Become a Citizen
- II. The Costs Of Choosing
- 4. Resistance from Outside: Machine Politics and the (Non) Incorporation of Immigrants
- 5. Resistance from Within: The Myth of Return and the Community of Memory
- III. Liminal Politics
- 6. In-between Identities: Race and Ethnicity in the American Context
- 7. The Politics of In-between: Avoiding Irreconcilable Demands, Keeping Loyalties
- IV. Breaking The Impasse
- 8. Wanting It Both Ways: The Quest for Dual Citizenship
- 9. Wanting In: Latin American Immigrant Women and the Turn to Electoral Politics
- V. Conclusion: The New Americans
- 10. Liminality and Democratic Citizenship
- Appendix: Methodology and Interview Sample
- References
- Index