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Transnationalism, the State, and the Extraterritorial Citizen

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Offering a political optic on transnationalism, this article shows how the Partido Acción Nacional from Guanajuato, Mexico, seeks to reconstitute Guanajuatense transnational migrants as clients and funders of state policies, as political subjects with “dual loyalty†but limited political autonomy. To co-opt migrants into development projects designed bythe state but financed bythe migrants, partyelites reconfigure the meanings of “migrant,†“region,†and “citizen.†This is contested by migrant leaders whose views of extraterritorial citizenship, translocal community, and partyloy alty differ from views of the partyelites. The migrants see the state as diverting their energies from true civil societyand local development initiatives across borders.

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  • Michael Peter Smith, 2003. "Transnationalism, the State, and the Extraterritorial Citizen," Politics & Society, , vol. 31(4), pages 467-502, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:polsoc:v:31:y:2003:i:4:p:467-502
    DOI: 10.1177/0032329203256957
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    1. Christopher Strunk, 2013. "Circulating Practices: Migration and Translocal Development in Washington D.C. and Cochabamba, Bolivia," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 5(10), pages 1-18, September.
    2. Fox, Jonathan A, 2006. "Reframing Mexican Migration as a Multi-Ethnic Process," Center for Global, International and Regional Studies, Working Paper Series qt4nn6v8sk, Center for Global, International and Regional Studies, UC Santa Cruz.

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