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Contesting Citizenship: Irregular Migrants and New Frontiers of the Political
Anne McNevin
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Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFN; JPVH1; LNDA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 494. Irregular Migrants and New Frontiers of the Political. 240 pages, Illustrations. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFFN; JPVH1; LNDA1. Dimension: 231 x 163 x 20. Weight: 462.
Irregular migrants complicate the boundaries of citizenship and stretch the parameters of political belonging. Comprised of refugees, asylum seekers, "illegal" labor migrants, and stateless persons, this group of migrants occupies new sovereign spaces that generate new subjectivities. Investigating the role of irregular migrants in the transformation of citizenship, Anne McNevin argues that irregular status is an immanent (rather than aberrant) condition of global capitalism, formed by the fast-tracked processes of globalization. McNevin casts irregular migrants as more than mere victims of sovereign power, shuttled from one location to the next. Incorporating examples from the United States, Australia, and France, ... Read more
Irregular migrants complicate the boundaries of citizenship and stretch the parameters of political belonging. Comprised of refugees, asylum seekers, "illegal" labor migrants, and stateless persons, this group of migrants occupies new sovereign spaces that generate new subjectivities. Investigating the role of irregular migrants in the transformation of citizenship, Anne McNevin argues that irregular status is an immanent (rather than aberrant) condition of global capitalism, formed by the fast-tracked processes of globalization. McNevin casts irregular migrants as more than mere victims of sovereign power, shuttled from one location to the next. Incorporating examples from the United States, Australia, and France, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231151283
SKU
V9780231151283
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About Anne McNevin
Anne McNevin is a research fellow and lecturer in international studies at the Globalism Research Centre, RMIT University, Melbourne. She is also an associate editor of the journal Citizenship Studies.
Reviews for Contesting Citizenship: Irregular Migrants and New Frontiers of the Political
Contesting Citizenship carefully treads a new path, inviting readers to think differently about citizenship by 'hearing' and 'seeing' the acts of those who have been rendered as outsiders and strangers to citizenship.
Engin Isin, The Open University In a cosmopolitan age, the movement of displaced people, arguably an inherent part of the human condition from time immemorial, inspires much ... Read more
Engin Isin, The Open University In a cosmopolitan age, the movement of displaced people, arguably an inherent part of the human condition from time immemorial, inspires much ... Read more