Alienhood: citizenship, exile, and the logic of difference

Introduction: Transnational aliens

Becoming transnational: El Norte and the "Elsewhere" of exile

Accented bodies and coercive assimilation: The trespasses of the Garc¡a Girls

The Dialectics of exile: Resident alienhood and lost in translation

Claustrophobic exile: The tenant and ostracizing logics of difference

Anatomies of abjection: Ethnic cleansing and liminality in before the rain

Afterword: The last immigrant.