Precarity and belonging : labor, migration, and noncitizenship / edited by Catherine S. Ramirez, Sylvanna M. Falcon, Juan Poblete, Steven C. McKay, and Felicity Amaya Schaeffer.
Introduction: The nexus of mobility, precarity, and (non)citizenship / Catherine S. Ramirez, Juan Poblete, Sylvanna M. Falcon, Steven C. McKay, and Felicity Amaya Schaeffer -- Racialization of Central Americans in the United States / Leisy J. Abrego and Alejandro Villalpando -- The waste of globalization's party / Alejandro Grimson -- Refractions of the nation : the democratic impacts of "chain migration" / Adrian Felix -- More equal than others : managing the boundaries of citizenship / Bridget Anderson -- Colliding mobilities on the Tohono O'odham Reservation : border surveillance and precarity for migrants and indigenous peoples / Felicity Amaya Schaeffer -- A state-to-come : Tibetan refugee-citizenship and the nation in exile / Tsering Wangmo Dhompa -- Apartheid, migrant labor, and precarity in comparative perspective / Marcel Paret -- Labor precarity, immigration, and the challenges of accessing worker rights : evidence from California / Shannon Gleeson -- Negotiating indenture : migrant domestic work and temporary labor migration in Singapore / Rhacel Salazar Parrenas and Krittiya Kantachote -- Pocketed proletarianization : why there is no labor politics in the "world factory" / Biao Xiang -- The urban exclusion of internally displaced peasants in Medellin, Colombia / Claudia Maria Lopez -- Exclusionary inclusion : applying for legal status in the United States / Susan Bibler Coutin and Veronique Fortin -- Formal and informal citizenships : the spectrum of practices and statuses in Latin America and the United States / Juan Poblete -- Denizenship / Nicholas De Genova -- Black no more : black denizenship and the struggle for the future / Catherine S. Ramirez -- Imperial citizenship : Marshall Islanders and the Compact of Free Association / Emily Mitchell-Eaton -- Afterword: The politics of precarity and noncitizenship under global capitalism / Tanya Golash-Boza.
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"-- Provided by publisher
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