Contesting Citizenship

Irregular Migrants and New Frontiers of the Political

By: Anne McNevin

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Hardcover | 28 June 2011 | Edition Number 1

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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. 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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Contesting Citizenship carefully treads a new path, inviting readers to think differently about citizenship by 'hearing' and 'seeing' the acts of those who have been rendered as outsiders and strangers to citizenship. -- Engin Isin, The Open University In a cosmopolitan age, the movement of displaced people, arguably an inherent part of the human condition from time immemorial, inspires much fear among the settled. Rich in empirical detail from the United States, Australia, and France, Anne McNevin's book views 'irregular immigrants' as more than victims. Instead, she argues they are agents of changing notions of political belonging and novel understandings of citizenship. In challenging the presumed stability of 'regular' sovereign power, they are defining a new 'frontier of the political' that has massive implications for the meaning of citizenship in the contemporary world. -- John Agnew, University of California, Los Angeles, and author of Globalization and Sovereignty An innovative addition to the scholarship on citizenship... Recommended. Choice ...refreshing and particularly important... -- Stephanie J. Silverman Journal of Refugee Studies A very impressive book. Historical Materialism

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Preface and Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Irregular Migrants and New Frontiers of the Political	p. 11
The Globalizing State: Remaking Sovereignty and Citizenship	p. 40
Policing Australia's Borders: New Terrains of Sovereign Practice	p. 68
Acts of Contestation: The Sans-Papiers of France	p. 93
From City to Citizen: Modes of Belonging in the United States	p. 118
Conclusion: Contentious Spaces of Political Belonging	p. 146
Notes	p. 157
Bibliography	p. 193
Index	p. 219
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