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"Transnational and Diasporic Citizenship Across the Americas"

By Robyn Rodriguez, UC Davis, and Ulla Berg, Rutgers University

State interests in emigrant populations have become more salient in Latin America
in the past decade and many Latin American governments have formulated new
policies to include their migrant populations abroad in national polities. These
policies have come to replace older models of residential citizenship with more
flexible options for membership and belonging although not necessarily less
exclusionary. Yet the ability of people to act as citizens in certain transnational
spaces is mediated by inequalities along the axes of gender, race, nationality, and
class, both in source and destination countries as well as transnationally. In this
talk we draw on examples from case studies from Mexico, El Salvador, Peru, Haiti,
Puerto Rico, and the U.S. to discuss the particularities of migrant-state relationships
in various settings while also pointing to new general trends in emigrant
citizenship.

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