Translocal Citizenship : The Political Subjectivity of Indigenous Mexican Migrants
This paper aims at reforming contemporary understandings of the possibilities of citizenship in the age of globalization, taking as a point of departure the forms of political subjectivity engendered by the experiences of migration to the United States of indigenous Mexicans. Indigenous migrants maintain highly localistic ties to their home communities, even across national borders, and have developed multi-sited political networks on the basis of membership in these communities. Through my analysis of the political life across borders of indigenous migrants, I will show that translocal citizenship, in the ways it is practiced by these migrants, is demonstrative of the potentially productive nature of global economic processes in creating new spaces for political action and reshaping the boundaries of political membership