Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and Illegality in Mexican ChicagoWhile Chicago has the second largest Mexican population among U. S. cities, relatively little ethnographic attention has focused on its Mexican community. This much needed ethnography of Mexicans living and working in Chicago examines processes of racialization, labor subordination, and class formation; the politics of nativism; and the structures of citizenship and immigration law. Nicholas De Genova develops a theory of "Mexican Chicago" as a