Title
Proxy Citizenship and Transnational Advocacy: Colombian Activists from Putumayo to Washington, DC
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-2013
Department
Colby College. Anthropology Dept.
Abstract
Proxy citizenship is the mechanism through which certain rights of citizenship—the ability to make claims for redress to a state—are conferred on activists through relationships with NGOs. Focusing on advocacy from within the policy process, U.S. and Colombian NGOs channeled political legitimacy and rights of access to Colombians, whose claims emerge from the experience of governance as articulated through testimony. This process, and its roots within the shared history of the Putumayo region of Colombia and Washington, DC, reveals emerging practices of citizenship claims and transnational political participation.
Recommended Citation
Tate, Winifred, "Proxy Citizenship and Transnational Advocacy: Colombian Activists from Putumayo to Washington, DC" (2013). Faculty Scholarship. 72.
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/faculty_scholarship/72
Included in
Latin American Studies Commons, Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration Commons, Social and Cultural Anthropology Commons
Comments
Originally published:
American Ethnologist
Volume 40 Number 1, February 2013