Impossible Citizens

Author : Neha Vora
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822353935

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Indian communities have existed in the Gulf emirate of Dubai for more than a century. Since the 1970s, workers from South Asia have flooded into the emirate, enabling Dubai's huge construction boom. They now compose its largest noncitizen population. Though many migrant families are middle-class and second-, third-, or even fourth-generation residents, Indians cannot become legal citizens of the United Arab Emirates. Instead, they are all classified as temporary guest workers. In Impossible Citizens, Neha Vora draws on her ethnographic research in Dubai's Indian-dominated downtown to explore how Indians live suspended in a state of permanent temporariness. While their legal status defines them as perpetual outsiders, Indians are integral to the Emirati nation-state and its economy. At the same time, Indians—even those who have established thriving diasporic neighborhoods in the emirate—disavow any interest in formally belonging to Dubai and instead consider India their home. Vora shows how these multiple and conflicting logics of citizenship and belonging contribute to new understandings of contemporary citizenship, migration, and national identity, ones that differ from liberal democratic models and that highlight how Indians, rather than Emiratis, are the quintessential—yet impossible—citizens of Dubai.

Author : Neha Vora
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822397533

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Indian communities have existed in the Gulf emirate of Dubai for more than a century. Since the 1970s, workers from South Asia have flooded into the emirate, enabling Dubai's huge construction boom. They now compose its largest noncitizen population. Though many migrant families are middle-class and second-, third-, or even fourth-generation residents, Indians cannot become legal citizens of the United Arab Emirates. Instead, they are all classified as temporary guest workers. In Impossible Citizens, Neha Vora draws on her ethnographic research in Dubai's Indian-dominated downtown to explore how Indians live suspended in a state of permanent temporariness. While their legal status defines them as perpetual outsiders, Indians are integral to the Emirati nation-state and its economy. At the same time, Indians—even those who have established thriving diasporic neighborhoods in the emirate—disavow any interest in formally belonging to Dubai and instead consider India their home. Vora shows how these multiple and conflicting logics of citizenship and belonging contribute to new understandings of contemporary citizenship, migration, and national identity, ones that differ from liberal democratic models and that highlight how Indians, rather than Emiratis, are the quintessential—yet impossible—citizens of Dubai.

Author : Bridget Byrne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137003218

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Making Citizens by Bridget Byrne Pdf

In an increasingly mobile world with mounting concerns about the states' control of borders and migration, passports and citizenship rights matter more than ever. This book asks what citizenship ceremonies can tell us about how citizenship is understood through empirical research in the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands and Ireland.

Author : Noora Lori
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108498173

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Offshore Citizens by Noora Lori Pdf

This study of citizenship and migration policies in the Gulf shows how temporary residency can become a permanent citizenship status.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Political science
ISBN : UVA:X030800706

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A Treatise on Government by Aristotle Pdf

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1981-09-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780141913261

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The Politics by Aristotle Pdf

Twenty-three centuries after its compilation, 'The Politics' still has much to contribute to this central question of political science. Aristotle's thorough and carefully argued analysis is based on a study of over 150 city constitutions, covering a huge range of political issues in order to establish which types of constitution are best - both ideally and in particular circumstances - and how they may be maintained. Aristotle's opinions form an essential background to the thinking of philosophers such as Thomas Aquinas, Machiavelli and Jean Bodin and both his premises and arguments raise questions that are as relevant to modern society as they were to the ancient world.

Author : Luc Rouban
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 4274903109

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Citizens and the New Governance by Luc Rouban Pdf

This volume addresses the relationship of citizenship and public management in Europe. After 15 years of state reform, it is time for an overall discussion of the theoretical and empirical impact and limits of New Public Management, as one of the latest reorientations in public administration, on the practice of citizenship. It points out the tension between a focus on improvement of state bureaucracies, on the one hand, and the involvement of citizens in the co-production of policies on the other. It also points to a fundamental change that is taking place: the imortance of state apparatuses for the development and sustainability of viable societies is being de-emphasized and special attention to "governance" is now taking over the central place, that for so long has been occupied by attention to "government". Through the eco-production of public policies by citizens and public authorities working together, a new civil society is emerging. The book highlights the fact that the re-invention of the citizen is of crucial importance to public administration practice, as well as to the various public administration disciplines in Europe.

Author : Randma-Liiv, Tiina,Lember, Veiko
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781800374362

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Engaging Citizens in Policy Making by Randma-Liiv, Tiina,Lember, Veiko Pdf

This is an open access title available under the terms of a [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0] License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Exploring academic and policy thinking on e-participation, this book opens up the organizational and institutional 'black box' and provides new insights into how public administrations in 15 European states have facilitated its implementation.

Author : Jennifer Gabrys
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781452967998

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Citizens of Worlds by Jennifer Gabrys Pdf

An unparalleled how-to guide to citizen-sensing practices that monitor air pollution Modern environments are awash with pollutants churning through the air, from toxic gases and intensifying carbon to carcinogenic particles and novel viruses. The effects on our bodies and our planet are perilous. Citizens of Worlds is the first thorough study of the increasingly widespread use of digital technologies to monitor and respond to air pollution. It presents practice-based research on working with communities and making sensor toolkits to detect pollution while examining the political subjects, relations, and worlds these technologies generate. Drawing on data from the Citizen Sense research group, which worked with communities in the United States and the United Kingdom to develop digital-sensor toolkits, Jennifer Gabrys argues that citizen-oriented technologies promise positive change but then collide with entrenched and inequitable power structures. She asks: Who or what constitutes a “citizen” in citizen sensing? How do digital sensing technologies enable or constrain environmental citizenship? Spanning three project areas, this study describes collaborations to monitor air pollution from fracking infrastructure, to document emissions in urban environments, and to create air-quality gardens. As these projects show, how people respond to, care for, and struggle to transform environmental conditions informs the political subjects and collectives they become as they strive for more breathable worlds.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UIUC:30112111601933

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Relief for American Citizens Captured and Interned by Japanese by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : Andrew White Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : International law
ISBN : NYPL:33433061706143

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The Citizens' Manual of Government and Law by Andrew White Young Pdf

Author : Dorian Alt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000889154

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How European Citizens Understand the Economy by Dorian Alt Pdf

This book argues that the European public sphere functions to help citizens understand complex economic issues and discuss them meaningfully across borders. Through original research conducted on citizens’ perceptions of European economic issues, it explores a mechanism that allows people to make sense of such complex issues - national anchoring - and shows that the way issues are politicized today in a national public sphere will shape citizens' understandings of novel issues tomorrow. The book demonstrates that debates in the European public sphere spread knowledge to the population just as national debates do, thus allowing transnational deliberation to function in the EU and potentially advance a European identity. The book thus draws optimistic conclusions with regard to EU legitimacy, with the European public sphere functioning rather well and problems of complexity and compatibility seeming less pronounced than often expected in public opinion research and European studies. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of public opinion, European studies, political attitudes, austerity politics and more broadly to political science, sociology and social psychology.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Rules and Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111202680

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Voting by U.S. Citizens Residing Abroad by United States. Congress. Senate. Rules and Administration Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Rules and Administration. Subcommittee on Privileges and Elections
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Absentee voting
ISBN : LOC:00185872609

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Voting by U.S. Citizens Residing Abroad by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Rules and Administration. Subcommittee on Privileges and Elections Pdf

Author : A.G. Noorani
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199087785

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Constitutional Questions and Citizens' Rights by A.G. Noorani Pdf

This omnibus brings together two highly acclaimed volumes of essays written by India's leading constitutional expert and political commentator, A.G. Noorani. The volume also includes nine new essays that examine key issue areas that emerged in the debate on institutions and citizens' rights later. The essays explore the Indian Constitution and its basic structure, Parliament and the making of foreign policy, the issue of lobbying and the need for appropriate legislation, as also ethical codes for parliamentarians and ministers. Further, the omnibus includes a discussion of Courts and their powers of contempt, journalist's rights and freedom of information, in addition to an analysis of the choice of candidates by political parties. Written in the author's trademark lucid style, Constitutional Questions in India scrutinizes almost every constitutional problem that arose in the last two decades. The essays in this volume deal with issues concerning the President, Parliament, the states, the Judiciary, the Civil Services, the Election Commission, the armed forces and the process of accountability on which the constitutional machinery is based. Citizens' Rights, Judges and State Accountability follows the discussion of the executive and legislative branches with a discussion of India's institutions, the Judiciary, Civil Services and the elections, and various commissions of enquiry constituted by the government. It is supplemented with insights into the freedom of information and the citizen's rights to know, and specific articles on the Constitution, parliamentary resolutions, foreign policy, and the armed forces. While highlighting the process of accountability across these institutions, the volume demonstrates how citizens can assert their rights in the face of institutional disinterest and injustice.