Introduction : interpretive engagement in Morocco and Mexico -- Discretionary state seeing : emigration policy in Morocco and Mexico until 1963 -- Reaching out : beginning a conversation with Moroccan emigrants, 1963-1973 -- Relational awareness and controlling relationships : Moroccan state...

This paper critically examines the portrayal of hometown associations (HTAs) formed by Mexican migrants as separate from the state institutions with which they interact. I argue instead that Mexican HTAs are social fields in which multiple actors negotiate both new expressions of transnational...