Mexican migrants living in New York City have not uprooted themselves from
their homeland as did migrants from previous generations. These contemporary migrants
have engaged themselves in the phenomenon of transnationalism, which is characterized
by the building and maintenance of simultaneous linkages in both the migrants' country
of settlement and their country of origin.
New York City is the destination of a large number of Mexican migrants from
different regions of the state of Puebla. Leaders of this Mexican state are increasingly
engaging in new practices so that the Poblano (people from Puebla) population abroad
remains socially, politically, culturally and economically part of the state from which it
originated. This thesis is an ethnography of Casa Puebla, an organization in New York
created conjointly by the Poblano migrants and their state government. It explores and
describes the practices and activities employed by the leadership of this organization for
involving migrants in a transnational experience. It also explores the role of this
organization as a venue for the construction of a deterritorialized state of Puebla in New
York and an "imagined" Poblano community. By strengthening the migrants'
identification with their state of origin, the state can make new claims for their loyalty
and sustain political, social and economic relationships between the Poblano migrants
and their state of origin despite their living in another country. The creation of
transnational organizations sponsored by the state of origin reflects the growing
institutionalization of migration orchestrated by the sending regional states and highlights
the role of the middle entity--the regional state— in the construction of the transnational
experience. / Arts, Faculty of / History, Department of / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UBC/oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/10960 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Sevy Fua, Rosa Maria |
| Source Sets | University of British Columbia |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis/Dissertation |
| Format | 2440991 bytes, application/pdf |
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