Citizenship, migrant activism and the politics of movement
By: edited by Peter Nyers and Kim Rygiel
Series: Routledge research on the global politics of migration -- 2
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415605779; 9780203125113
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; Civil rights; Political aspects; Political activity; Immigrants
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: citizenship, migrant activism, and the politics of movement; title: Securitized migrants and postcolonial (in)difference: the politics of activisms among North African migrants in France / Alina Sajed; title: Claiming rights, asserting belonging: contesting citizenship in the UK / Ruth Grove-White; title: Ungrateful subjects? refugee protests and the logic of gratitude / Carolina Moulin; title: "We are all foreigners": no borders as a practical political project / Bridget Anderson, Nandita Sharma and Cynthia Wright; title: Ethnography and human rights: the experience of APDHA with Nigerian sex workers in Andalucía / Estefanía Acién González; title: Moments of solidarity, migrant activism and (non)citizens at global borders: political agency at Tanzanian refugee camps, Australian detention centres and European borders / Heather Johnson; title: Building a sanctuary city: municipal migrant rights in the city of Toronto / Jean McDonald; title: Taking not waiting: space, temporality and politics in the city of sanctuary movement / Vicki Squire and Jennifer Bagelman; title: Undocumented citizens? shifting grounds of citizenship in Los Angeles / Anne McNevin.