Given the social struggle of ethnic Mexicans in the United States, the 20th century proved pivotal in social movements that would not only create opportunities but would mobilize ethnic Mexicans to move forward and secure that their voices were heard throughout the century. They used these means to integrate into daily life in the United States. Despite this, they have struggled to achieve what is considered “full citizenship” in US politics. Even though the United States has dehumanized, criminalized, and subjugated ethnic Mexicans, social and cultural citizenships have changed the way we understand the politics of ethnic Mexican social movements because ethnic Mexicans have resisted all levels of government to gain a form of belonging to the ethnic-Mexican world. United States and contributed heavily to the development of the United States despite being discriminated against. Social citizenship is defined by “TH Marshall conceptualized as evolving from a combination of civil, political and social elements in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries” (Del Castillo, 95). The three keys to social citizenship as defined above are civil, political and social. All of these keys are critical to immigrants being able to live in the United States while enjoying freedoms of speech, religion, and basic civil rights. The other two include political and social, the political is the right, the full right of immigrants to participate or exercise political power and finally the third is the social component that ensures that immigrants are granted the rights afforded to American citizens. Social citizenship is crucial to understand because it gives ethnic migrants a sense of belonging to the community. These ethnic Mexicans are...... center of paper...... becoming US citizens, something they did with other works cited Chavez, Alex “Labor Revolution and the Great Migration” Mexican-American History. University of Illinois at Chicago. 3. October 2013. Conference.Chavez, Alex “The Chicano/a Generation” Mexican-American History. University of Illinois at Chicago. 29. October 2013. Conference. Chavez, Alex “Constructing Lawlessness” Mexican-American History. University of Illinois at Chicago. November 12, 2013. Conference. Del Castillo, Adelaida R. 2007. “Illegal Status and Social Citizenship: Thoughts on Mexican Immigrants in a Postnational World” in Women and Migration in the US-Mexico Borderlands: A Reader. García, Igancio M 1997. “Strategies for Aztlán: Creating a Cultural Policy.” Rosaldo, Renato. 1994. “Cultural citizenship and educational democracy”. Cultural anthropology 9(3):402-411.