Transborder/Transnational Citizenships: Migrants and Anthropologists: A Response to Gaspar Rivera-Salgado

One of the key areas of discussion in Gaspar Rivera-Salgados paper and in Michael Kearneys scholarship is the need to rework concepts of citizenship in the context of transborder migration, political participation, and identity formation. Here I want to explore and unfold some of the ideas about citizenship that Rivera-Salgado proposes and do some thinking about the application of different concepts of citizenship for anthropologists who do research with indigenous transborder communities. This discussion is guided by Michael Kearney's demonstration of how to be a transborder anthropologist and a binational citizen at multiple levels. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright holder.]