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Uncertain Citizenship
Everyday Practices of Bolivian Migrants in Chile
Uncertain Citizenship explores how Bolivian migrants to Chile experience citizenship in their daily lives. Intraregional migration is on the rise in Latin America and challenges how citizenship in the region is understood and experienced. As Megan Ryburn powerfully argues, many individuals occupy a state of uncertain citizenship as they navigate movement and migration across borders. Drawing on multi-sited ethnographic research, this book contributes to debates on the meaning and practice of citizenship in Latin America and for migrants throughout the world.
Megan Ryburn is a Fellow in Human Geography at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
"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
"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