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Publication details [#53188]

Parsons Dick, Hilary. 2010. No option but to go: Poetic rationalization and the discursive production of Mexican migrant identity. Language & Communication 30 (2) : 90–108.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

agency | discursive practice | identity negotiation | immigrant | rationalism

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This study argues that protracted attachments to social personae, expressing locally salient theories of personhood and agency, are a central way for Uriangato (Mexican) people to construct migrant identities.