Genderacing immigrant subjects: ‘anchor babies’ and the politics of birthright citizenship.
Birthright citizenship is often a subject of important national debates on immigration. From a historical perspective, the influx of Mexican and Chinese immigrants to the United Stated has elicited politically charged efforts to deny the right of US citizenship to their children. Based on a review o...
| Publicado en: | Social Identities Vol. 24; no. 3; pp. 312 - 327 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
May2018
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