Liminal legality:: Salvadoran and Guatemalan immigrants' lives in the United States
Liminal legality:: Salvadoran and Guatemalan immigrants' lives in the United States
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DOI：
10.1086/499509
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发表时间：
2006-01-01
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
Menjívar, C
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作者：
Menjívar, C
本文探讨了不确定的法律的地位对移民生活的影响，将他们的经历置于公民身份/归属和分段同化的框架内，并使用维克托·特纳的阈限概念和苏珊·库坦的“法律的不存在”。它质疑黑人和白色的概念化的有证和无证移民，通过暴露“阈合法性”的灰色地带，并探讨这种中间状态如何影响个人的社交网络和家庭，教会在移民生活中的地位，以及更广泛的艺术表达领域。从经验上讲，它借鉴了萨尔瓦多和危地马拉移民在旧金山弗朗西斯科，洛杉矶，华盛顿，D。C.的方法，1989年到2001年的凤凰城这篇文章支持了关于民族国家在移民生活中继续处于中心地位的论点。
This article examines the effects of an uncertain legal status on the lives of immigrants, situating their experiences within frameworks of citizenship/ belonging and segmented assimilation, and using Victor Turner's concept of liminality and Susan Coutin's "legal nonexistence." It questions black - and - white conceptualizations of documented and undocumented immigration by exposing the gray area of "liminal legality" and examines how this in - between status affects the individual's social networks and family, the place of the church in immigrants' lives, and the broader domain of artistic expression. Empirically, it draws on ethnographic fieldwork conducted among Salvadoran and Guatemalan immigrants in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington, D. C., and Phoenix from 1989 to 2001. The article lends support to arguments about the continued centrality of the nation - state in the lives of immigrants.