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Precarity and Belonging : Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship
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Precarity and Belonging : Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship / Catherine S. Ramírez; ed. by Juan Poblete, Sylvanna M. Falcón, Catherine S. Ramírez, Steven C. McKay, Felicity Amaya Schaeffer.
ISBN
9781978815667
Publication
New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2021]
Copyright Notice Date
©2021
Physical Description
1 online resource (274 p.) : 2 tables
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In English.
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Summary
Precarity and Belonging examines how the movement of people and their incorporation, marginalization, and exclusion, under epochal conditions of labor and social precarity affecting both citizens and noncitizens, have challenged older notions of citizenship and alienage. This collection brings mobility, precarity, and citizenship together in order to explore the points of contact and friction, and, thus, the spaces for a possible politics of commonality between citizens and noncitizens.The editors ask: What does modern citizenship mean in a world of citizens, denizens, and noncitizens, such as undocumented migrants, guest workers, permanent residents, refugees, detainees, and stateless people? How is the concept of citizenship, based on assumptions of deservingness, legality, and productivity, challenged when people of various and competing statuses and differential citizenship practices interact with each other, revealing their co-constitutive connections? How is citizenship valued or revalued when labor and social precarity impact those who seemingly have formal rights and those who seemingly or effectively do not? This book interrogates such binaries as citizen/noncitizen, insider/outsider, entitled/unentitled, "legal"/"illegal," and deserving/undeserving in order to explore the fluidity--that is, the dynamism and malleability--of the spectra of belonging.
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De Gruyter University Press eBook pilot project 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 12, 2021
Series
Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the
Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction: Toward a Politics of Commonality: The Nexus of Mobility, Precarity, and (Non)citizenship
Part I Mobility and Migration
1 More Equal Than Others: Managing the Boundaries of Citizenship
2 Refractions of the Nation: The Democratic Impacts of "Chain Migration"
3 Racialization of Central Americans in the United States
4 The Waste of Globalization's Party
5 Occupation on Sacred Land: Colliding Mobilities on the Tohono O'odham Reservation
6 A State-to- Come: Tibetan Refugee-Citizenship and the Nation in Exile
Part II Labor and Precarity
7 Apartheid, Migrant Labor, and Precarity in Comparative Perspective
8 Labor Precarity, Immigration, and the Challenges of Accessing Worker Rights: Evidence from California
9 Negotiating Indenture: Migrant Domestic Work and Temporary Labor Migration in Singapore
10 Pocketed Proletarianization: Why There Is No Labor Politics in the "World's Factory"
11 The Urban Exclusion of Internally Displaced Farmers in Medellín, Colombia
Part III Belonging and (Non)citizenship
12 Exclusionary Inclusion: Applying for Legal Status in the United States
13 Formal and Informal Citizenships: The Spectrum of Practices and Statuses in Latin America and the United States
14 Denizenship
15 Black No More: Black Denizenship and the Struggle for the Future
16 Imperial Citizenship: Marshall Islanders and the Compact of Free Association
Afterword: The Politics of Precarity and Noncitizenship under Global Capitalism
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Index
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