| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.2

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Migrant Imaginaries: Latino Cultural Politics in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. By Alicia Schmidt Camacho. (New York: New York University Press, 2008. xiv, 375 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-1648-9. Paper, $24.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-1649-6.)

In Migrant Imaginaries, Alicia Schmidt Camacho argues that even as Mexican migrants have been excluded from U.S. citizenship due to their undocumented status and fallen outside the parameters of national life in Mexico due to their mobility, their role as a transborder laboring class has led them to reconfigure notions of civic life and community in ways that defy the meanings of citizenship in both nations (p. 9). Unable to be incorporated in the "imagined communities" of either an American nation state or a Mexican one, migrants imaginatively craft their own worlds informed by the loss and displacement they face, which distinctly set apart their experiences from the assimilation stories animating the national polity in the United States and Mexico (p. 6). In this interdisciplinary work, the author examines various cultural forms of migrant expression at the root of the creation of social imaginaries that reveal the Mexican migrant and Mexican American struggle for cultural and political autonomy (p. 15).

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