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Us and Them?: The Dangerous Politics of Immigration Controls
Bridget Anderson
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Description for Us and Them?: The Dangerous Politics of Immigration Controls
Paperback. Us and Them? explores the distinction between migrant and citizen through using the concept of 'the community of value'. The challenges of migration go to the heart of equality, rights, freedom, and membership. These are not only matters for migrants but go to the heart of citizens' politics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFFN; JPS; JPVH; LNDA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 350.
Us and Them? explores the distinction between migrant and citizen through using the concept of 'the community of value'. The community of value is comprised of Good Citizens and is defined from outside by the Non-Citizen and from the inside by the Failed Citizen, that is figures like the benefit scrounger, the criminal, the teenage mother etc. While Failed Citizens and Non-Citizens are often strongly differentiated, the book argues that it is analytically and politically productive to to consider them together. Judgments about who counts as skilled, what is a good marriage, who is suitable for citizenship, ... Read more
Us and Them? explores the distinction between migrant and citizen through using the concept of 'the community of value'. The community of value is comprised of Good Citizens and is defined from outside by the Non-Citizen and from the inside by the Failed Citizen, that is figures like the benefit scrounger, the criminal, the teenage mother etc. While Failed Citizens and Non-Citizens are often strongly differentiated, the book argues that it is analytically and politically productive to to consider them together. Judgments about who counts as skilled, what is a good marriage, who is suitable for citizenship, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
350g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198737612
SKU
V9780198737612
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About Bridget Anderson
Bridget Anderson is Professor of Migration and Citizenship, and Deputy Director and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), Oxford University. Bridget Anderson's research interests include low waged labour migration, deportation, legal status, and citizenship. Publications include Doing the Dirty Work? The Global Politics of Domestic Labour (Zed Books 2000) and Who Needs ... Read more
Reviews for Us and Them?: The Dangerous Politics of Immigration Controls
The book leaves anyone interested in justifications of eligibility in social policies motivated to maintain a critical debate about the very foundations of often taken-for-granted assumptions about deservingness, as well as the global and national distribution effects of particular exclusionary policy choices with regard to individual groups' rights, life chances and livelihoods. It certainly teaches us not to hide behind ... Read more