Citizenship in the Global South: Policing Irregular Migrants and Eroding Citizenship Rights in Mexico

Research on the consequences of being an undocumented migrant has focused mostly on the experiences of migrants in the Global North. Examination of experiences in Mexico reveals the export by the United States of a transnational regime of illegality that has transformed the citizenship rights of Mexican migrants in their own territory. La investigacion sobre las consecuencias de ser un migrante indocumentado se ha centrado principalmente en las experiencias de los migrantes en el Norte Global. El examen de las experiencias en Mexico revela la exportacion por los Estados Unidos de un regimen transnacional de ilegalidad que ha transformado los derechos de ciudadania de los migrantes mexicanos en su propio territorio.