Understanding Institutionalized Collective Remittances : The Mexican Tres Por uno Program in Zacatecas.

Intro -- INTRODUCTION -- The Global Agenda: Migration-Development-Diaspora -- From Pochos to Heroes -- The Binational State of Zacateca -- Federations of Zacatecan Clubs: Demand Changes or receive Rewards? -- LITERATURE &amp -- METHODOLOGY -- 1. LIVES AND STATES ACROSS BORDERS -- 1.1 The Academic Response: Transnationalism -- 1.1.1 Leaving the Nation-State Blindness -- 1.1.2 Accessing Spaces across Levels limited by Organizations -- 1.2 The Southern Response: States discover Diaspora -- 2. INTERPRETIVE RESEARCH: UNDERSTANDING TO EXPLAIN -- 2.1 Social Reality is meaningfully constructed -- 2.2 Principles of an Interpretive Research -- 3. RESEARCH'S GOAL AND DESIGN -- Methodological Design -- Methodological Design at each Level of Analysis -- 4. METHODS -- 4.1 Reconstructing: Discovering -Testing Hypotheses Sequentially -- 4.2 Reconstruction of Biographies -- 4.3 Reconstruction of Interactions at Work Meetings -- 4.4 Reconstruction of the Public Presentation at Festivities -- 5. REFLECTING ON THE RESEARCH'S PROCESS -- 5.1 Accessing the Field and Following up -- 5.2 Decisions taken along the Way -- 5.3 The Researcher's Position: A Close Outsider learning -- EMPIRICAL RESULTS -- 6. AN AMERICAN DREAM BECOMING A MEXICAN DREAM -- 6.1 The Story of a Talented One -- 6.1.1 The son of a farmer family became a scientist -- 6.1.2 The luck of being one of the special and privileged -- 6.1.3 Talented but excluded -- 6.1.4 Institutionalized collective remittances and the selected ones -- 6.2 The Story of a Responsible Family Man -- 6.2.1 The child of a suffering woman became a leader -- 6.2.2 A struggle for the family -- 6.2.3 The unquestionable authority of the family's head -- 6.2.4 Institutionalized Collective Remittances and the role of a caretaker -- 6.2.5 Working in a federation of clubs is doing politics in Mexico -- 6.3 Belonging Where and for What?.

6.3.1 Investing after succeeding in the US -- 6.3.2 The Returns of institutionalized collective remittances:a diasporic capital -- 7. FEDERATION OF CLUBS CONSTRUCT BRIDGES -- 7.1 Federation of Zacatecan Clubs' Path. Present Implications -- 7.2 The Play of Power in a Federation of Zacatecan Clubs -- 7.2.1 Prelude: The tone of possible conflicts given by previous events -- 7.2.2 Setting the stage: formal rules and framework -- 7.2.3 A look at the life of a federation of clubs: summary of a work meeting -- 7.2.4 The script of the play is legitimacy -- 7.3 The Construction of Bridges in Tres por Uno -- 7.3.1 The legitimate indispensible brokers and a by-product called avales -- 7.3.2 Politics in Mexico and the leaders of the federations of clubs -- 8. OUR DEVELOPMENT PATH AND THE TRES POR UNO -- 8.1 Dia del Zacatecano. A Zacatecan State Reception in LA? -- 8.1.1 A public relations event of a federation of Zacatecan clubs -- 8.1.2 The Zacatecan government moves over the weekend to LA -- 8.1.3 Zacatecans politicians dance to the rhythm of Tres por Uno -- 8.1.4 The gala's king(s): The governor (and the president) -- 8.2 Where we stand and What We want. Address to the Public -- 8.2.1 A call to organize us -- 8.2.2 The share story of Tres por Uno -- 8.2.3 The meaning of the development of Tres por Uno -- 8.3 "Vamos Escalando, Vamos Ganando el Respeto" -- 8.4 A Proud Better Zacatecan. Drawing Identity- nurturing Belonging -- 8.5 We speak on behalf of the Zacatecan Nation in the US -- CONCLUSIONS -- 9. A DIALOGUE WITH THE ACTORS -- 9.1 Using Events as Lenses to reconstruct -- 9.2 The Red Line: Status and Legitimacy. A Diasporic Capital -- 9.3 Value of an Interpretive Analysis of Collective Remittances -- 9.4 What Music will be played at the Dia del Zacatecano? -- AFTERWORD -- APPENDIX -- A.1 Overview of the State of Zacatecas.

A.2 Tres por Uno Projects in Zacatecas (2004-2012) -- A.3 Procedure to apply for a Tres por Uno Project -- A.4 Transcription Rules -- A.5 Chronology of Juan Diaz's Life History -- A.6 Chronology of Pedro Perez's Life History -- A.7 Chronology of the FCZSC -- A.8 Positions in the Board of a Federation of Clubs -- A.9 Program Dia del Zacatecano Gala of the FCZSC 2010 -- A.10 Sketch Dia del Zacatecano Gala of the FCZSC 2010 -- A.11 Discurso del Presidente de la FCZSC Dia del Zacatecano 2010 -- A.12 Speech of the President of the FCZSC Dia del Zacatecano 2010 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Secondary Sources -- List of Events attended -- Summarized List of Interview Partners -- List of Sources on Historical Events of the FCZSC.

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