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Abstract
Early activism by groups representing American citizens living abroad was motivated by parents' concerns about the citizenship status of children born outside the United States. In this essay I discuss a 1971-2 letterwriting campaign which involved American parents speaking on behalf of the rights of their minor children in a way that facilitated a simultaneous looking forward into the child's future, and looking backward to the parent's origins. Thus parents' representations of the child-citizen positioned them as agents of both nostalgia and futurity within the American family abroad. © 2009 Taylor & Francis.
Keywords
Americans abroad, Children, Citizenship, Parents, United states
Source Title
Children's Geographies
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Rights
Date
2009
DOI
10.1080/14733280802576093
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Article