This paper leverages the repressive turn in U.S. migration policy to understand how a cross-border perspective can illuminate the experiences of two different, but contemporaneous second-generation populations: Those whose lives have unfurled in the United States, all the while growing up in internationalized families with ongoing homeland ties; and those whose childhoods began in the United States, but were disrupted as part of the ‘Great Expulsion’, and thus migrated to Mexico, albeit often with U.S. citizenship and almost always with cross-border ties to family members still living in the United States. As the paper demonstrates, looking across borders highlights the importance of the territorial frontier and the continuing power of the national to undermine the forces that produce cross-border connections.

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跨国转向后：跨界看民族国家的硬面

本文利用美国移民政策的压制性转变来理解跨境视角如何阐明两个不同但同时代的第二代人口的经历：那些在美国展开生活，同时在国际化环境中成长的人与家乡有持续联系的家庭；以及那些童年开始于美国，但因“大驱逐”而中断，因此移民到墨西哥的人，尽管他们通常拥有美国公民身份，而且几乎总是与仍居住在美国的家庭成员有跨境联系. 正如本文所展示的那样，跨越国界着眼凸显了领土边界的重要性以及国家持续破坏产生跨境联系的力量的力量。