Transnational Urban and Rural Migrant Governance
The Case of the Indigenous Mexican Migrant Community in Los Angeles
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21789428 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sascha Krannich (0000-0001-5115-2088, Giessen School of Theology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 117-132 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-30 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | People Place and Policy Online (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1753-8041 • E-ISSN: 1753-8041 |
| Publisher | Sheffield Hallam University (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3351/ppp.2022.8579466525 |
| OpenAlex | W4220758382 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
The subject of transnational migrant governance is even more important when migration involves groups who are excluded and marginalized in the country of residence as well as in the country of origin. This is especially the case for indigenous Mexican migrants who have no full citizenship and no economic opportunities in Mexico and who are illegal and socially discriminated against in the United States. Therefore, the central question addressed by this paper is how indigenous migrants actually face these challenges and whether they organize and construct their own community governance as an answer to social exclusion and marginalization in ways which go beyond conventional "state" or "market" forms of organisation. Based on data collected from ethnographic research in Los Angeles, I argue that indigenous migrants from Mexico's southern state of Oaxaca build their own governance structures through a well institutionalized community based on a diverse network of migrant organizations, which open up wide transnational sociocultural and political spaces that connect their urban community in Los Angeles with their rural communities back in Oaxaca. Here, in contrast to other migrant groups, they apply their traditional indigenous community governance approaches, called usos y costumbres and tequio y cargo, as a means of sustaining identity and belonging, sharing social and economic capital and securing an independent toehold in the host nation
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |