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Contesting citizenship : irregular migrants and new frontiers of the political /
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 subjecti...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 223 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-218) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780231522243 023152224X 1283093995 9781283093996 9786613093998 6613093998 |