Introduction : The Mirage of Refuge -- Resettlement : The Creation of Self-Sufficient Subjects -- Welfare : The Fashioning of (Non-)Citizens -- Public Education : Locked Out of the Right to Have Rights -- Young Adult Education : The Shaping of Laboring Citizens -- Healthcare : The Debilitation of Iraqi Bodies across Borders -- Conclusion : Meaningless Citizenship.
Summary:
"Meaningless Citizenship traces the costs of America's long-term military involvement around the world by following the forced displacement of Iraqi families. Sally Wesley Bonet unveils how Iraqis are doubly displaced: first by the machinery of American imperialism in their native countries and then through a more pernicious war occurring on U.S. soil-the dismantling of the welfare state"-- Provided by publisher.
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