Contesting citizenship
Subtitle: irregular migrants and new frontiers of the political
By: Anne McNevin
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780231151283; 9780231522243
Description: Investigating the role of irregular migrants in the transformation of citizenship, the author argues that irregular status is an immanent (rather than aberrant) condition of global capitalism, formed by the fast-tracked processes of globalization.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Irregular migrants and new frontiers of the political; title: The globalizing state : remaking sovereignty and citizenship; title: Policing Australia's borders : new terrains of sovereign practice; title: Acts of contestation : the sans-papiers of France; title: From city to citizen : modes of belonging in the United States; title: Conclusion : contentious spaces of political belonging.