Transnational Political Spaces Between Mexico and the USA

  • Stephanie Schütze
Chapter
First Online:

Abstract

This chapter explores how transnational political spaces can be conceptualized and contextualized in the study of transnational political spaces between Mexico and the US. Therefore, different approaches to the analysis of transnational political spaces and arenas in the context of de- and reterritorialization, the importance of ‘the local’ and national borders are discussed in the first part of the chapter. In the second part of the chapter the historical and contemporary context of transnational political relations between Mexico and the United States is introduced and the respective objectives and fields of action of Mexican migrant cross-border political involvement are shown.

Keywords

Political Participation Undocumented Migrant Political Space Mexican Migrant Mexican Government 
These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in to check access.

References

  1. Albert, Mathias, Gesa Bluhm, Jan Helmig, Andreas Leutzsch, and Jochen Walter (eds.). 2009. Transnational political spaces. Agents – structures – encounters. Frankfurt am Main/New York: Campus.Google Scholar
  2. Anderson, James. 2002. Transnational democracy. Political spaces and border crossings. London/New York: Routledge.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  3. Appadurai, Arjun. 1996. Modernity at large. Cultural dimensions of globalization. Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press.Google Scholar
  4. Bada, Xóchitl. 2007. The binational civic and political engagement of Mexican migrant hometown associations and federations in the United States. Iberoamericana 7(25): 129–142.Google Scholar
  5. Bada, Xóchitl. 2013. From national to topophilic attachments: Continuities and changes in Chicago’s Mexican migrant organizations. Latino Studies 11(1): 28–54.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  6. Bada, Xóchitl, Jonathan Fox, and Andrew Seele (eds.). 2006. Al Fin Visibles: La Presencia Cívica de los Migrantes Mexicanos en Estados Unidos. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.Google Scholar
  7. Bada, Xóchitl, Jonathan Fox, and Andrew Selee (eds.). 2010. Context matters: Latino immigrant civic engagement in nine U.S. cities. Series on Latino immigrant civic engagement, National report. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.Google Scholar
  8. Bakker, Matt, and Michael Peter Smith. 2003. El Rey del Tomate. Migrant political Transnationalism and democratization in Mexico. Migraciones Internacionales 2(1): 59–83.Google Scholar
  9. Bakker, Matt, and Michael Peter Smith. 2008. Citizenship across borders. The political transnationlism of El Migrante. New York: Cornell University Press.Google Scholar
  10. Basch, Linda, Nina Glick Schiller, and Cristina Szanton Blanc. 1994. Nations unbound. Transnational projects, postcolonial predictments and deterritorialized nation-states. London: Routledge.Google Scholar
  11. Bauböck, Rainer. 2008. Stakeholder citizenship: An idea whose time has come? In Delivering citizenship. The transatlantic council on migration, ed. Bertelsmann Stiftung, European Policy Centre, and Migration Policy Institute, 31–48. Gütersloh: Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung.Google Scholar
  12. Berndt, Christian. 2004. Globalisierungs-Grenzen: Modernisierungsträume und Lebenswirklichkeiten in Nordmexiko. Bielefeld: Transcript.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  13. Besserer, Federico. 1999. Estudios Transnacionales y Ciudadania Transnacional. In Fronteras Fragmentadas, ed. Gail Mummert, 215–238. Zamora: El Colegio de Michoacán.Google Scholar
  14. Boruchoff, Judith. 2010. Transnational perspectives on migrant civic and political engagement. In Latino immigrants in the Windy city: New trends in civic engagement. Reports on Latino immigrant civic engagement Nr.6 (January 2010), ed. Xóchitl Bada, Oscar Chacón, and Jonathan Fox, 67–84. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.Google Scholar
  15. Brown, Wendy. 2010. Walled states, waning sovereignty. New York: Zone Books.Google Scholar
  16. Cano, Gustavo, and Alexandra Delano. 2007. The Mexican government and organised Mexican immigrants in the United States: A historical analysis of political transnationalism (1848–2005). Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 33(5): 695–725.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  17. Castañeda, Alejandra. 2006. The politics of citizenship of Mexican migrants. New York: LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC.Google Scholar
  18. Comaroff, John L., and Jean Comaroff. 1997. Postcolonial politics and discourses of democracy in Southern Africa: An anthropological reflection on African political modernities. Journal of Anthropological Research 53(2): 123–146.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  19. Cornelius, Wayne A. 2005. Controlling ‘unwanted’ immigration: Lessons from the United States, 1993–2004. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 31(4): 775–794.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  20. Delano, Alexandra. 2011. Mexico and its diaspora. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  21. Escamilla Hamm, Patricia H. 2009. De cómo el Transnacionalismo facilita la Participación de los Inmigrantes Mexicanos en la Política Estadounidense. Migración y Desarrollo 12: 89–114.Google Scholar
  22. Faist, Thomas. 2006. The transnational social spaces of migration. Working Paper 2006, Vol. 10. Bielefeld: COMCAD - Center on Migration, Citizenship and Development.Google Scholar
  23. Fitzgerald, David. 2005. Nationality and migration in modern Mexico. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 31: 171–191.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  24. Fitzgerald, David. 2008. Colonies of the little motherland: Membership, space, and time in Mexican migrant hometown associations. Comparative Studies in Society and History 50(1): 145–169.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  25. Fox, Jonathan. 2005. Mapping Mexican migrant civil society. Paper presented at Mexican migrant civic and political participation, Nov 2005. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.Google Scholar
  26. Fox, Jonathan. 2010. Understanding Latino immigrant civic engagement: Context matters. In Context matters: Latino immigrant civic engagement in nine U.S. cities, Series on Latino immigrant civic engagement, ed. Xóchitl Bada, Jonathan Fox, and Andrew Selee, 7–17. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.Google Scholar
  27. Fraser, Nancy. 2009. Scales of justice. Reimaging political space in a globalizing world. New York/Chichester: Columbia University Press.Google Scholar
  28. Goldring, Luin. 1998a. From market membership to transnational citizenship?: The changing politization of transnational social spaces. L’Ordinaire Latino-Americain 173–4: 167–172.Google Scholar
  29. Goldring, Luin. 1998b. The power of status in transnational social fields. In Transnationalism from below, ed. Michael Peter Smith and Luis Eduardo Guarnizo, 165–195. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers.Google Scholar
  30. Goldring, Luin. 2002. The Mexican state and transmigrant organizations: Negotiating the boundaries of membership and participation in the Mexican nation. Latin American Research Review 37: 55–99.Google Scholar
  31. Gonzalo, Badillo Moreno (ed.). 2004. El Voto de los Mexicanos en el Extranjero. Documentos. Morelia: Gobierno del Estado de Michoacán.Google Scholar
  32. Gupta, Akhil, and James Ferguson. 1992. Beyond ‘culture’: Space, identity, and the politics of difference. Cultural Anthropology 7(1): 6–23.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  33. Hess, Sabine, and Bernd Kasparek (eds.). 2010. Grenzregime. Diskurse, Praktiken, Institutionen in Europa. Berlin: Assoziation A.Google Scholar
  34. Imaz Bayona, Cecilia. 2006. La Nación Mexicana Transfronteras. Impactos Sociopolíticos en México de la Emigración a Estados Unidos. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.Google Scholar
  35. Johnson, Kevin R., and Bill Ong Hing. 2007. The immigrant rights marches of 2006 and the prospects for a new civil rights movement. Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 42(1): 99–138.Google Scholar
  36. Jönsson, Christer. 2008. Democracy beyond the nation state? Transnational actors and global governance. Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift 110(1): 83–97.Google Scholar
  37. Kearney, Michael. 2004. Changing fields of anthropology. From local to global. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.Google Scholar
  38. Kron, Stefanie, and Pablo Hernández. 2008. Im Grenzbereich. Eine Reise nach Nicaragua und Costa Rica führt an die Ränder des amerikanischen Kontinents. iz3w. Informationszentrum 3 310: 14–16.Google Scholar
  39. Lauth, Hans-Joachim. 1992. Parteien, Wahlen und Demokratie. In Mexiko. Politik, Wirtschaft, Kultur heute, ed. Briesemeister Dietrich and Zimmermann Klaus, 46–63. Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert.Google Scholar
  40. Leticia, Calderón Chelius (ed.). 2003. Votar en la Distancia. La Extensión de los Derechos políticos a Migrantes, Experiencias comparadas. Mexico: Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora.Google Scholar
  41. Leticia, Calderón Chelius. 2011. Los Superheroes no existen. Los Migrantes Mexicanos ante las primeras Elecciones en el Exterior. Mexico City: Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora.Google Scholar
  42. Levitt, Peggy, and Sanjeev Khagram. 2007. The transnational studies reader. London/New York: Routledge.Google Scholar
  43. Levitt, Peggy, and Nina Glick Schiller. 2004. Conceptualizing simultaneity: A transnational field perspective on society. International Migration Review 38(4): 1002–1039.Google Scholar
  44. Lewellen, Ted C. 2003. Political anthropology. An introduction. Westport/London: Praeger Publishers.Google Scholar
  45. Martínez Saldaña, Jesús. 2004. La Participación política de los Migrantes. La Historia destroza Mitos. In La Puerta que llama: el Voto de los Mexicanos en el Extranjero, ed. Gonzalo Badillo Moreno, 47–59. Mexico: Senado de la República.Google Scholar
  46. Pries, Ludger. 1996. Transnationale soziale Räume. Theoretisch-empirische Skizze am Beispiel der Arbeitswanderungen Mexico-USA. Zeitschrift für Soziologie 25(6): 456–472.Google Scholar
  47. Pries, Ludger. 2010. Transnationalisierung. Theorie und Empirie grenzüberschreitender Vergesellschaftung. Wiesbaden: VS.Google Scholar
  48. Rivera Salgado, Gaspar. 2002. Cross-border grassroots organizations. In Cross border dialogues. U.S.-Mexico social movements networking, ed. David Brooks and Jonathan Fox, 259–274. San Diego: University of California Press.Google Scholar
  49. Sandoval Palacios, Juan Manuel, and Raúl Ross Pineda. 2001. El Derecho de votar y a ser votado: la Lucha de los Mexicanos en el Exterior por la Ciudanización. Senderos. Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades 1: 139–175.Google Scholar
  50. Santamaría Gómez, Arturo. 2004. Los Migrantes, la Soberanía Nacional y la Identidad Mexicana. In La Puerta que llama: el Voto de los Mexicanos en el Extranjero, ed. Gonzalo Badillo Moreno, 29–34. Mexico: Senado de la República.Google Scholar
  51. Sassen, Saskia. 2004. Local actors in global politics. Current Sociology 52(4): 649–670.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  52. Schroer, Markus. 2006. Räume, Orte, Grenzen. Auf dem Weg zu einer Soziologie des Raums. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.Google Scholar
  53. Smith, Michael Peter. 2003. Transnationalism, the state, and the extraterritorial citizen. Politics & Society 4: 467–502.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  54. Smith, Robert C. 2006. México en Nueva York. Vidas Transnacionales de los Migrantes Mexicanos entre Puebla y Nueva York. Mexico: Miguel Angel de Porrúa.Google Scholar
  55. Smith, Michael Peter, and Luis Eduardo Guarnizo. 1998. Transnationalism from below. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers.Google Scholar
  56. Strauss, Anselm. 1993. Continual permutations of action. New York: Aldine Transaction.Google Scholar
  57. Turner, Victor. 1974. Dramas, fields and metaphors: Symbolic action in human society. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.Google Scholar
  58. Velasco Ortiz, Laura. 1998. Identidad cultural y territorio: una reflexión en torno a las comunidades transnacionales entre México y Estados Unidos. Región y Sociedad IX 15: 105–130.Google Scholar
  59. Vertovec, Steven. 2009. Transnationalism. London/New York: Routledge.Google Scholar
  60. Zürn, Michael. 2000. Democratic governance beyond the nation-state: The EU and other international institutions. European Journal of International Relations 6(2): 183–221.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Copyright information

© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016

Authors and Affiliations

  • Stephanie Schütze
    • 1
  1. 1.Lateinamerika-Institut, Freie Universität BerlinBerlinGermany

Personalised recommendations