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Castaneda aims at bridging the divide between a critique of a state-centered notion of citizenship and the
recognition of Mexican migrants as political actors, as well as subjects of the law. Migrants' stories and
the transnational space they inhabit are political. Struggles for belonging, for citizenship--legal,
cultural, or both--take place in migrants' everyday lives. Based on data from Aguililla, Michoacan (Mexico)
and Redwood City, California (United States), Castaneda argues that citizenship lies at the crossroads of
legal definitions of membership and senses of belonging. She maintains that citizenship is a site of
political struggle, a struggle that takes place in everyday interactions and in the relation between state
and people.
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