Contesting Citizenship : : Irregular Migrants and New Frontiers of the Political /

Contesting Citizenship : : Irregular Migrants and New Frontiers of the Political / / Anne McNevin.

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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. Inve...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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McNevin, Anne,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Irregular Migrants and New Frontiers of the Political
  • 2. The Globalizing State: Remaking Sovereignty and Citizenship
  • 3. Policing Australia's Borders: New Terrains of Sovereign Practice
  • 4. Acts of Contestation: The Sans-Papiers of France
  • 5. From City to Citizen: Modes of Belonging in the United States
  • Conclusion: Contentious Spaces of Political Belonging
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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