Nations of Emigrants: Shifting Boundaries of Citizenship in El Salvador and the United States

Nations of Emigrants: Shifting Boundaries of Citizenship in El Salvador and the United States
ISBN-10
0801445744
ISBN-13
9780801445743
Category
History
Pages
263
Language
English
Published
2007
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Author
Susan Bibler Coutin

Description

Coutin analyzes the case of emigration from El Salvador to the United States to consider how current forms of migration challenge conventional understandings of borders, citizenship, and migration itself.

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