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Cultural logics of belonging and movement Transnationalism, naturalization, and U.S. immigration politics

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ID20151510
AuthorsB Coutin (0000-0003-1065-2769, University of California, Irvine, corresponding author), Susan Bibler Coutin
Year2003
Volume30
Issue4
Pages508-526
Publication date2003-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Ethnologist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/ae.2003.30.4.508
OpenAlexW2137053600
LanguageEN
Citations received57
References cited76

In the United States, unprecedented high numbers of naturalization applicants, the adoption of restrictive immigration policies, changing demographics, and the 1996 presidential election coalesced in the mid‐1990s to make naturalization simultaneously a high priority and problematic. Salvadorans who had immigrated during the 1980s and who were still struggling for the opportunity to naturalize were caught up in these dynamics. A juxtaposition of their struggles against exclusion and of naturalization ceremonies' rhetoric of inclusion elucidates complex and paradoxical connections between naturalization and transnationalism

Citizenship · Demographics · Immigration · Inclusion (mineral) · Naturalization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Presidential election · Rhetoric · Sociology · Transnationalism · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

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