Thomas, Lorrin2016-09-052016-09-052005-06-301536-1837http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/19550Symposium on the Representation and Use of Urban Spaces University of Delaware April 7-8, 2005 Presentation on the subject of citizenshipThis talk is based on a section of the book I’m writing, Juan Q. Citizen: Puerto Rican Migrants and the Politics of Citizenship in NYC, 1917-1970. The larger project takes the abstract question of citizenship, a preoccupation of political and policy history in the last decade, and turns it into a real analytical problem for social history: What did this central category of political status mean in everyday life, especially when that status was as complex and embattled as it was for Puerto Ricans--who seemed to remain, even as migrants in the metropole, colonial citizens?enCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlikeArticle