Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and Illegality in Mexican Chicago

by Nicholas De Genova

Book Overview

While Chicago has the second-largest Mexican population among U.S. cities, relatively little ethnographic attention has focused on its Mexican community. This much-needed ethnography of Mexicans living and working in Chicago examines processes of racialization, labor subordination, and class formation; the politics of nativism; and the structures of citizenship and immigration law. Nicholas De Genova develops a theory of "Mexican Chicago" as a transnational...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822336154
• ISBN13: 9780822336150
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"