Uncertain Citizenship

"This moving ethnography follows the uncertain lives of migrants who move to Chile searching for 'the Chilean dream' but find themselves working and living in precarious conditions. By examining the ways these migrants are able to access some aspects of social, economic, and political rights but not others, Ryburn disrupts conventional dualities of citizens vs. noncitizens, showing instead that citizenship is negotiated in shifting transnational spaces of inclusion and exclusion."—Nancy Postero, author of The Indigenous State: Race, Politics, and Performance in Plurinational Bolivia

"Flowing between beautifully rendered ethnographic vignettes to critical analytic observations, this insightful work focuses on South-to-South migration. The payoff is a good read and new theoretical building blocks for analyzing the conundrum of the 'uncertain citizenship' now facing migrants around the world." —Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, author of Paradise Transplanted: Migration and the Making of California Gardens