Approach to migration rights and the transnational citizenship. The case of the Mexican migrants and theirs political rights

The traditional concept of citizenship (linked to the nation-State) expressed in the theoretical works of T. H. Marshall and defined as an array of rights (civil, political and social) is not enough to help us understand the migration and political rights phenomenon. Several works have surpassed the...

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Autor principal: PARRA, José Francisco; Universidad de Salamanca
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Universidad de Salamanca 2010
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Acceso en línea:http://revistas.usal.es/index.php/1130-2887/article/view/7319
http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=es/es-011&d=article7319oai
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topic Transnationalism; citizenship; Nation-State; migrations rigths; mexican emigration
Transnacionalismo; ciudadanía; Estado-nación; derechos de la migración; emigración mexicana
spellingShingle Transnationalism; citizenship; Nation-State; migrations rigths; mexican emigration
Transnacionalismo; ciudadanía; Estado-nación; derechos de la migración; emigración mexicana
PARRA, José Francisco; Universidad de Salamanca
Approach to migration rights and the transnational citizenship. The case of the Mexican migrants and theirs political rights
topic_facet Transnationalism; citizenship; Nation-State; migrations rigths; mexican emigration
Transnacionalismo; ciudadanía; Estado-nación; derechos de la migración; emigración mexicana
description The traditional concept of citizenship (linked to the nation-State) expressed in the theoretical works of T. H. Marshall and defined as an array of rights (civil, political and social) is not enough to help us understand the migration and political rights phenomenon. Several works have surpassed the theoretical understandings of Marshall, as a result, concepts such as «cosmopolitan citizenship», «differentied citizenship», «democratic citizenship», multicultural citizenship » and «postnational citizenship», have emerged to help us understand in liberal perspectivs citizenship in a context of globalization (migration being an important part of it). At the same time, the latter concepts have been translated into public policies of inclusion, however, both the concepts and the policies were built in terms of only the migration-receiving countries. In an effort to fill this theoretical vacuum, the concept of «transnational citizenship» has recently emerged in the works of some authors. This new approach to citizenship, which stresses cultural and economic links to justify why emigrants living in a country different to their own still retain their right to be a citizen in their countries of origin, can help us understand cases as Mexico and its 8,5 million nationals who currently live outside its boundaries: Mexico has denied political citizenship to these people for they have no Mexican political rights, for example, they can not vote abroad. The purpose of this paper is to try to explain how the transnationalism help us to understand why the Mexican State (partisan and political elites), promotes or limits the rights of mexican migrants depending either on restrictic notion of citizenship or on particular political calculations.
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title Approach to migration rights and the transnational citizenship. The case of the Mexican migrants and theirs political rights
title_short Approach to migration rights and the transnational citizenship. The case of the Mexican migrants and theirs political rights
title_full Approach to migration rights and the transnational citizenship. The case of the Mexican migrants and theirs political rights
title_fullStr Approach to migration rights and the transnational citizenship. The case of the Mexican migrants and theirs political rights
title_full_unstemmed Approach to migration rights and the transnational citizenship. The case of the Mexican migrants and theirs political rights
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publisher Universidad de Salamanca
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url http://revistas.usal.es/index.php/1130-2887/article/view/7319
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