Migration and immigration is an issue dominating the political agendas and policies of industrialized countries. Citizens and non-citizens are viewed as mobile bodies that carry potential risks and must be subject to risk assessments, upon which rights to movement are then either granted or restricted. Num Pages: 200 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, 5 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: JFFN; JP; JPVH1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 440. . 2012. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Citizenship, Migrant Activism and the Politics of Movement (Routledge Research on the Global Politics of Migration)
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2012
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0415605776
ISBN 13: 9780415605779
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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Migration is an inescapable issue in the public debates and political agendas of Western countries, with refugees and migrants increasingly viewed through the lens of security. This book analyses recent shifts in governing global mobility from the perspective of the politics of citizenship, utilising an interdisciplinary approach that employs politics, sociology, anthropology, and history.

Featuring an international group of leading and emerging researchers working on the intersection of migrant politics and citizenship studies, this book investigates how restrictions on mobility are not only generating new forms of inequality and social exclusion, but also new forms of political activism and citizenship identities. The chapters present and discuss the perspectives, experiences, knowledge and voices of migrants and migrant rights activists in order to better understand the specific strategies, tactics, and knowledge that politicized non-citizen migrant groups produce in their encounters with border controls and security technologies. The book focuses the debate of migration, security, and mobility rights onto grassroots politics and social movements, making an important intervention into the fields of migration studies and critical citizenship studies.

Citizenship, Migrant Activism and the Politics of Movement will be of interest to students and scholars of migration and security politics, globalisation and citizenship studies.

About the Author

Peter Nyers is Associate Professor of the Politics of Citizenship and Intercultural Relations at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Kim Rygiel is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

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