Citizen and the Alien Dilemmas of Contemporary Membership

Name: Citizen and the Alien Dilemmas of Contemporary Membership
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ISBN: 9780691138282

ISBN-10: 0691138281

ISBN-13: 9780691138282

Edition: 2006

Authors: Linda Bosniak

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Citizenship presents two faces. Within a political community it stands for inclusion and universalism, but to outsiders, citizenship means exclusion. Because these aspects of citizenship appear spatially and jurisdictionally separate, they are usually regarded as complementary. In fact, the inclusionary and exclusionary dimensions of citizenship dramatically collide within the territory of the nation-state, creating multiple contradictions when it comes to the class of people the law calls aliens--transnational migrants with a status short of full citizenship. Examining alienage and alienage law in all of its complexities,The Citizen and the Alienexplores the dilemmas of inclusion and…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 9/28/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 7.40" wide x 9.17" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Divided Citizenships



Defining Citizenship: Substance, Locations, and Subjects



The Difference That Alienage Makes



Constitutional Citizenship through the Prism of Alienage



Borders, Domestic Work, and the Ambiguities of Citizenship



Separate Spheres Citizenship and Its Conundrums


Notes


Index