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Organizing Immigrant Communities in American Cities: Is this Transnationalism, or What?

Year: 2004
Type: article
Abstract: organizations, service providers, unions, church-based organizations, chambers of commerce, civic associations, and Mexican state federations.Also immigration scholars, Mexican officials from the Mexican Consulate, and from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were interviewed, as well as city officials in both cities, and several local politicians whose names were mentioned by activists and leaders in the first set of interviews: five state representatives, one state senator, and four city council members in the Houston area; and three state representatives, one state senator, and three aldermen in the Chicago area.52 interviews of the whole Órale Politics!set were considered for research purposes in the current paper.
Language: English
Subfield: Demography
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2102932633
FWCI: 7.245
Cites: 24
Cited by: 15
Related to: 10