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Product DescriptionWhat what governments do when much of its population, simply gets up and walks away? In Mexico and other migrant-sending countries, mass migration calls on governments to negotiate a new social contract with its citizens abroad. After decades of failed efforts to control output, the Mexican state and emphasizes voluntary relationships, dual nationality, and rights obligations. In this book, David Fitzgerald examines a region of Mexico, whose citizens have been migrating to the United States for more than a century. He finds that emigrant citizenship is not a sign of the decline of nation-state, but gives rise to a new form of citizenship, and bureaucratic efforts to manage migration and its e. . . More>>