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A nation of emigrants? Statecraft, church-building, and nationalism in Mexican migrant source communities.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A nation of emigrants? Statecraft, church-building, and nationalism in Mexican migrant source communities./
Author:	Fitzgerald, David Scott.
Description:	376 p.
Notes:	Chair: Roger Waldinger.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-09A.
Subject:	History, Latin American. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3190470
ISBN:	9780542329807

A nation of emigrants? Statecraft, church-building, and nationalism in Mexican migrant source communities.
Fitzgerald, David Scott.

A nation of emigrants? Statecraft, church-building, and nationalism in Mexican migrant source communities. - 376 p.

Chair: Roger Waldinger.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2005.

In the aggressive image of nation-state formation that infuses political sociology, populations lie prone while the state surveils, penetrates, cages, contains, disciplines, coerces, and extracts resources from them. But what do states do when a huge part of the population gets up and walks away? Controlling immigration and managing immigrants have constituted recognized features of the state and nation building projects of countries of immigration like the United States, but social scientists have generally ignored the implications of mass emigration for state and nation building in countries of emigrant origin. This inattention obscures the ways in which international movement presents both challenges of governmentality and opportunities for building the infrastructural capacity of source country institutions. This dissertation compares the way that different levels and agencies of the Mexican state and Catholic Church have attempted to manage mass emigration and its effects over the last century in the historical heartland of Mexican emigration. Drawing on archival, interview, survey, and ethnographic evidence, I argue that the central government consistently tried to control the volume, duration, skills, and geographic origin of emigrants from 1900 to the early 1970s. The failure of emigration control and the current abandonment of serious emigration restrictions are explained by a combination of external constraints, imposed by a highly asymmetrical interdependence with the United States, and internal constraints, imposed by actors within the balkanized Mexican state who recurrently undermined federal emigration policy through contradictory local practices. I argue that the emigration policies of the Catholic Church and state closely mirror each other, reflecting the unrecognized nationalist face of the transnational Catholic Church and a common set of problems for national institutions trying to identify, monitor, discipline, and extract financial resources from mobile members through vehicles like hometown associations formed by domestic and international migrants. As a consequence of early emigration policy failures, both the Mexican state and Catholic Church have shifted the emphases of their policies from controlling emigration to managing emigrants already on the move. In sum, this study of the Mexican case opens new vistas into a political sociology of emigration.

ISBN: 9780542329807Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017580
History, Latin American.

A nation of emigrants? Statecraft, church-building, and nationalism in Mexican migrant source communities.
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