Contesting Citizenship: Irregular Migrants and New Frontiers of the Political - Couverture rigide

McNevin, Anne

 
9780231151283: Contesting Citizenship: Irregular Migrants and New Frontiers of the Political
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0231151284 ISBN 13 : 9780231151283
Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2011

Synopsis

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, she shows how migrants reject their position as "illegal" outsiders and make claims on the communities in which they live and work. For these migrants, outsider status operates as both a mode of subjectification and as a site of active resistance, forcing observers to rethink the enactment of citizenship. McNevin connects irregular migrant activism to the complex rescaling of the neoliberal state. States increasingly prioritize transnational market relations that disrupt the spatial context for citizenship. At the same time, states police their borders in ways that reinvigorate territorial identities. Mapping the broad dynamics of political belonging in a neoliberal era, McNevin provides invaluable insight into the social and spatial transformation of citizenship, sovereignty, and power.

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À propos de l'auteur

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.

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Éditeur
Columbia University Press
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0231151284
ISBN 13 
9780231151283
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
240
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