Mexico in the United States: Analysis of the Processes that Shape the «Illegalized» Mexican Identity
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https://doi.org/10.3989/rdtp.2016.02.002Keywords:
Citizenship, Illegal Immigrant, Belonging, Identity, Nation State, IllegalityAbstract
In 2006, migrant rights demonstrations in the United States became important scenarios of Mexican identity. This work attempts to approach this phenomenon by analyzing, from a historical perspective, the processes involved in ascription to this identity in the US nation state project, from parameters of subordinated belonging. For this purpose, three axes of analysis are proposed: 1) incorporating the production of external political identities as a constituent aspect of the national community, ascribed to the nation-state political model; 2) recognizing the current role of colonial heritage; 3) incorporating the interrelation between the consolidation of a market economy and the legal production of a precarious and expendable workforce. The article’s main aim is to address «illegality» as a dynamic sociopolitical space, rather than as a legal status, from which to produce new formulas of active citizenship.
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