La organización de nosotras. Procesos de ciudadanía a partir de experiencias de "ilegalidad" en estados unidos. Aprendizajes con mujeres unidas y activas

Résumé

ABSTRACT This doctoral thesis aims to break with legal and normative notions of citizenship in order to attend to the practices that provide its meaning from three interrelated dimensions: belonging, rights and participation. These axes cross the ethnographic account in which this research is based, and departs from the experiences of the author working with undocumented Mexican women living in the United States and that are part of the organization Mujeres Unidas y Activas, located in the cities of Oakland and San Francisco, California. The field work carried out between 2006 and 2010, allows methodologically to develop two levels of reflexivity: 1) an analysis of the forms of life and subjectivity of research social actors by looking at the meanings of their politicization and participation in community spaces of self-organizing; and (2) an exercise of self reflection in which the researcher is located within the investigated social ecosystem as an active , paradoxical and affected subject. The theoretical proposal in which this study is based is to put the spotlight on the political practices that go beyond identities linked to formal concept of citizenship, presenting as an example the role of the women that conform the social network of Mujeres Unidas y Activas in building a multidimensional political identity, as migrants, women, latina and domestic workers. For this, the author analyzes the truth regimes and regulatory artefacts that historically have defined citizenship in the United States as a place of exclusion for Mexican or Mexican-origin individuals . On the other hand, the thesis deeply analyzes the practices of resistance and contestation deployed by the women of the organization that involve , among other things, a practical redefinition of citizenship and an overflow of identity dynamics associated with normative conceptions of belonging. This dissertation concludes by opening new scenarios where the three aforementioned dimensions provide an in-depth perspective to the study of citizenship. The first dimension is the development of notions of belonging produced from the dual process of defining yourself and being defined. The second dimension corresponds to the articulation of rights derived from the positions produced in the first dimension. Third, we need to include the dimension of participation understood as the implementation of political practices based on principles and values developed collectively.