Título del libro: New Destinations: Mexican Immigration In The United States
Título del capítulo: Recent Mexican migration in the rural delmarva Peninsula: Human rights versus citizenship rights in a local context
ANA MARIA ARAGONES CASTAÑER;
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Idioma:
Inglés
Año de publicación:
2006
Resumen:
The isolated peninsula containing Delaware and the Eastern Shore (of the Chesapeake Bay) portions of Maryland and Virginia saw an explosive growth in Mexican and other Latino immigrant residents from 1990 to 2000. The Latino immigrant population grew several hundred percentage points in key counties and more than 1,000 percent in several towns, increasing from tiny absolute numbers to hundreds and thousands in those towns and counties, respectively (see tables 7.1 and 7.2). The largest portion of the broader Latino and Hispanic category regionally is Mexican, followed by Guatemalan. The expanding Mexican presence as settler-residents follows several decades of experience as seasonal, migratory farm workers and is preceded by early 1990s waves of Guatemalan and Haitian immigrants as political refugees who settled in the area. That Mexican and other Latino immigrants would settle here is somewhat remarkable, as the region is relatively isolated and had until now seen little immigration since the colonial and slavery periods. In addition to newness on the receiving region, many Mexican immigrants settling here also originate from a new immigrant-sending area within Mexico, the state of Veracruz. This is all creating a new and visible form of international integration for the long-isolated Delmarva region.1 The influx of Mexican immigrants as longer-term residents on a significant scale, rather than seasonal ones, is still in the early phase here. Their presence presents an opportunity to see from the initial stages how Mexican immigrants impact such an unlikely new settlement area and how a variety of local actors and organizations are responding to newcomers. In this context, we are especially interested in how immigrants' rights are affected and constructed through immediate, local practices, rather than distant policies. This topic is rooted in a larger debate between two competing paradigms on rights-citizenship theory versus the human rights perspective, with contradictions between the two especially evident in immigration (Turner 2002). In general, citizenship theory views rights as conditional and nation-state defined- that is, dependent on state recognition, fulfilling duties, and following states guidelines (Marshall 1950; Barbalet 1988; van Gunsteren 1978; 1998; Turner 1990).2 In c
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ISBN:
0871549883
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Russell Sage Foundation Nombre de la publicación:
Recent Mexican migration in the rural delmarva Peninsula: Human rights versus citizenship rights in a local context
Página inicial:
155
Página final:
183
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