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Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2010-07-15T20:44:23Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 2 AideAcosta_2010.docx: 7228103 bytes, checksum: 3a52c070d38732cb2e9afef9f5ab69c5 (MD5) Acosta_Aide.pdf: 2780241 bytes, checksum: 5ef394a959fe41cb4d828ca953ae2702 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2010-08-31T20:29:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 4 Acosta_Aide.pdf: 2780241 bytes, checksum: 5ef394a959fe41cb4d828ca953ae2702 (MD5) AideAcosta_2010.docx: 7228219 bytes, checksum: 9f90d2b43fd1720285369b1897e7c5b1 (MD5) 1_Acosta_Aide.pdf: 2779437 bytes, checksum: 9b1b2702ca67308758d513e9c255ad3d (MD5) license.txt: 4060 bytes, checksum: 1939ea53127e6318859f33728b27eaeb (MD5) Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:09:55-05:00 Original Data Group with Access Administrator Release Date: none Reason: Request of creator Item marked as restricted to the 'Administrator' Group (id=1) by William Ingram (wingram2@illinois.edu) on 2010-08-31T20:32:51Z Item is restricted until 2012-08-31T20:32:49Z Lugo, Alejandro Lugo, Alejandro Manalansan, Martin F. Rana, Junaid Torres, Arlene Vélez-Ibáñez, Carlos G. Acosta, Aide 2010-08-31T20:29:50Z 2010-08-31T20:29:50Z 2012-09-07T16:43:37Z 10000-01-01 2010-08-31T20:29:50Z Home Making in Small-town America is an ethnographic study on recent Mexican migration to rural communities of east-central Illinois, and traces the cultural bases of a diasporic community in the context of citizenship and immigration debates. I examine how immigrants transform their world around them and use memory and nostalgia to construct their new lives in the Midwest. While Mexicans have often been theoretically and analytically situated within the borderlands – the geo-political and metaphorical spaces along the U.S./Mexico border, I argue that a theoretical framework of diaspora, which connects multiple communities of dispersed populations, is fruitful in understanding the ways in which Mexican immigrants maintain and (re)create, through acts of cultural citizenship, a sense of homeland and of belonging in new immigrant destinations such as the rural Midwest. At the turn of the new millennium, Latina/o migrants are making home new destinations. At the same time, these shifts have caused wide-spread panic in fear of the immigrant Other. In a post-9/11 America, immigrants have faced increased repression through policy, violence, and heightened vigilance. Yet, through diasporic practice and home making, Mexicans/Latinos settle in new destinations, and contribute with their labor and lives to the re-making of small-town America. In doing so they invoke memory, nostalgia, and love as the heartland is transformed. Item reinstated by Sarah Shreeves (sshreeve@illinois.edu) on 2012-09-07T16:43:37Z Item was in collections: Dissertations and Theses - Anthropology (ID: 686) University of Illinois Dissertations and Theses (ID: 204) No. of bitstreams: 4 Acosta_Aide.pdf: 2780241 bytes, checksum: 5ef394a959fe41cb4d828ca953ae2702 (MD5) AideAcosta_2010.docx: 7228219 bytes, checksum: 9f90d2b43fd1720285369b1897e7c5b1 (MD5) 1_Acosta_Aide.pdf: 2779437 bytes, checksum: 9b1b2702ca67308758d513e9c255ad3d (MD5) license.txt: 4060 bytes, checksum: 1939ea53127e6318859f33728b27eaeb (MD5) Item released from any restrictions by Sarah Shreeves (sshreeve@illinois.edu) on 2012-09-07T16:43:37Z Item marked as restricted to the 'Administrator' Group (id=1) by Jacob Nash (jnash4@illinois.edu) on 2012-10-30T16:38:54Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Request of creator Limited http://hdl.handle.net/2142/17029 en Copyright 2010 Aide Acosta Immigration Diaspora Latinas/os Midwest Home making in small-town America: Mexican and Latina/o diasporas and citizenship practices in the Midwest 2010-8 Anthropology 1241 Anthropology 0340 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D. PHD:Anthropology -UIUC 10KS0340PHD