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Performing Belonging in Public Space: Mexican Migrants in New York City*.
- Source :
- Politics & Society; Sep2014, Vol. 42 Issue 3, p331-357, 27p
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- Playing soccer in public parks, participating in parades, or marching in religious processions are public performances that express membership in a political community. When these practices are performed by noncitizens, they highlight how the public space—in its physical and symbolic character—is not a space exclusive to members of the political community. Rather, public space is a terrain subject to contestation. In this article, I explore the ways Mexican migrants in New York City use and appropriate public spaces and in doing so expand the boundaries of the political community. I argue that by gaining access to public spaces, appropriating them, and then transforming them, noncitizens claim recognition as members of the political community and thus unsettle its boundaries. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00323292
- Volume :
- 42
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Politics & Society
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 98397361
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0032329214543257