Uncertain Citizenship: Everyday Practices of Bolivian Migrants in Chile
Megan Ryburn
Abstract
Uncertain Citizenship: Everyday Practices of Bolivian Migrants in Chile explores how Bolivian migrants to Chile experience citizenship across borders in their daily lives. Based on multi-sited ethnography, the book uncovers migrants’ lived realities in Chile and Bolivia. It also does broader conceptual work. It suggests that it is necessary to find new modes of thinking about the shifting and uneven ways that migrants in different parts of the world live citizenship in the everyday. It proposes that one way in which migrants’ citizenship can be comprehended is by considering their relationship ... More
Uncertain Citizenship: Everyday Practices of Bolivian Migrants in Chile explores how Bolivian migrants to Chile experience citizenship across borders in their daily lives. Based on multi-sited ethnography, the book uncovers migrants’ lived realities in Chile and Bolivia. It also does broader conceptual work. It suggests that it is necessary to find new modes of thinking about the shifting and uneven ways that migrants in different parts of the world live citizenship in the everyday. It proposes that one way in which migrants’ citizenship can be comprehended is by considering their relationships to different transnational spaces of citizenship—legal, economic, social, and political. In what ways are migrants—simultaneously and multiply—excluded from or included in these spaces across borders? How are exclusions produced? How do migrants pursue greater inclusion? In addressing these questions, the book suggests that migrants’ experiences of a complex array of shifting inclusions and exclusions across these spaces of citizenship can best be captured through the lens of uncertainty.
Keywords:
citizenship,
migration,
uncertainty,
Chile,
Bolivia
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2018 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780520298767 |
| Published to California Scholarship Online: May 2019 |
DOI:10.1525/california/9780520298767.001.0001 |
