Reconfiguring Citizenship

Author : Mehmoona Moosa-Mitha
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317070443

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Citizenship as a status assumes that all those encompassed by the term 'citizen' are included, albeit within the boundaries of the nation-state. Yet citizenship practices can be both inclusionary and exclusionary, with far-reaching ramifications for both nationals and non-nationals. This volume explores the concept of citizenship and its practices within particular contexts and nation-states to identify whether its claims to inclusivity are justified. This will show whether the exclusionary dimensions experienced by some citizens and non-citizens are linked to deficiencies in the concept, country-specific policies or how it is practised in different contexts. The interrogation of citizenship is important in a globalising world where crossing borders raises issues of diversity and how citizenship status is framed. This raises the issue of human rights and their protection within the nation-state for people whose lifestyles differ from the prevailing ones. Besides highlighting the importance of human rights and social justice as integral to citizenship, it affirms the role of the nation-state in safeguarding these matters. It does so by building on Indigenous peoples' insights about linking citizenship to connections to other people and the environment and arguing for the inalienability and portability of citizenship rights guaranteed collectively through international level agreements. These issues are of particular concern to social workers given that they must act in accordance with the principles of democracy, equality and empowerment. However, citizenship issues are often inadequately articulated in social work theory and practice. This book redresses this by providing social workers with insights, knowledge, values and skills about citizenship practices to enable them to work more effectively with those excluded from enjoying the full rights of citizenship in the nation-states in which they reside.

Author : Mehmoona Moosa-Mitha
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317070450

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Reconfiguring Citizenship by Mehmoona Moosa-Mitha Pdf

Citizenship as a status assumes that all those encompassed by the term 'citizen' are included, albeit within the boundaries of the nation-state. Yet citizenship practices can be both inclusionary and exclusionary, with far-reaching ramifications for both nationals and non-nationals. This volume explores the concept of citizenship and its practices within particular contexts and nation-states to identify whether its claims to inclusivity are justified. This will show whether the exclusionary dimensions experienced by some citizens and non-citizens are linked to deficiencies in the concept, country-specific policies or how it is practised in different contexts. The interrogation of citizenship is important in a globalising world where crossing borders raises issues of diversity and how citizenship status is framed. This raises the issue of human rights and their protection within the nation-state for people whose lifestyles differ from the prevailing ones. Besides highlighting the importance of human rights and social justice as integral to citizenship, it affirms the role of the nation-state in safeguarding these matters. It does so by building on Indigenous peoples' insights about linking citizenship to connections to other people and the environment and arguing for the inalienability and portability of citizenship rights guaranteed collectively through international level agreements. These issues are of particular concern to social workers given that they must act in accordance with the principles of democracy, equality and empowerment. However, citizenship issues are often inadequately articulated in social work theory and practice. This book redresses this by providing social workers with insights, knowledge, values and skills about citizenship practices to enable them to work more effectively with those excluded from enjoying the full rights of citizenship in the nation-states in which they reside.

Author : Lena Dominelli,Mehmoona Moosa-Mitha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Citizenship
ISBN : 1306907640

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Reconfiguring Citizenship by Lena Dominelli,Mehmoona Moosa-Mitha Pdf

Citizenship as a status assumes that all those encompassed by the term 'citizen' are included, albeit within the boundaries of the nation-state. Yet citizenship practices can be both inclusionary and exclusionary, with far-reaching ramifications for both nationals and non-nationals. This volume explores the concept of citizenship and its practices within particular contexts and nation-states to identify whether its claims to inclusivity are justified. This will show whether the exclusionary dimensions experienced by some citizens and non-citizens are linked to deficiencies in the concept, country-specific policies or how it is practiced in different contexts.

Author : Kathy-Ann Tan
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814341414

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Reconfiguring Citizenship and National Identity in the North American Literary Imagination by Kathy-Ann Tan Pdf

Literature has always played a central role in creating and disseminating culturally specific notions of citizenship, nationhood, and belonging. In Reconfiguring Citizenship and National Identity in the North American Literary Imagination, author Kathy-Ann Tan investigates metaphors, configurations, parameters, and articulations of U.S. and Canadian citizenship that are enacted, renegotiated, and revised in modern literary texts, particularly during periods of emergence and crisis. Tan brings together for the first time a selection of canonical and lesser-known U.S. and Canadian writings for critical consideration. She begins by exploring literary depiction of “willful” or “wayward” citizens and those with precarious bodies that are viewed as threatening, undesirable, unacceptable—including refugees and asylum seekers, undocumented migrants, deportees, and stateless people. She also considers the rights to citizenship and political membership claimed by queer bodies and an examination of "new" and alternative forms of citizenship, such as denizenship, urban citizenship, diasporic citizenship, and Indigenous citizenship. With case studies based on works by a diverse collection of authors—including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Djuna Barnes, Etel Adnan, Sarah Schulman, Walt Whitman, Gail Scott, and Philip Roth—Tan uncovers alternative forms of collectivity, community, and nation across a broad range of perspectives. In line with recent cross-disciplinary explorations in the field, Reconfiguring Citizenship and National Identity in the North American Literary Imagination shows citizenship as less of a fixed or static legal entity and more as a set of symbolic and cultural practices. Scholars of literary studies, cultural studies, and citizenship studies will be grateful for Tan’s illuminating study.

Author : Michael P. Hanagan,Charles Tilly
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0847691284

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Extending Citizenship, Reconfiguring States by Michael P. Hanagan,Charles Tilly Pdf

Extending Citizenship, Reconfiguring States presents a thematically unified analysis of changing citizenship practices over two centuries-from the eve of the French Revolution to contemporary China.

Author : Jatinder Mann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319535296

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Citizenship in Transnational Perspective by Jatinder Mann Pdf

This edited collection explores citizenship in a transnational perspective, with a focus on Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. It adopts a multi-disciplinary approach and offers historical, legal, political, and sociological perspectives. The two overarching themes of the book are ethnicity and Indigeneity. The contributions in the collection come from widely respected international scholars who approach the subject of citizenship from a range of perspectives: some arguing for a post-citizenship world, others questioning the very concept itself, or its application to Indigenous nations.

Author : Birte Siim
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031571442

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The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Citizenship by Birte Siim Pdf

Author : Andrew Griffith
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Citizenship
ISBN : 9780988064041

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Policy Arrogance or Innocent Bias: Resetting Citizenship and Multiculturalism by Andrew Griffith Pdf

Author : Law Commission of Canada
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774840798

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Law and Citizenship by Law Commission of Canada Pdf

The essays in Law and Citizenship provide a framework for analyzing citizenship in an increasingly globalized world by addressing a number of fundamental questions. How are traditional notions of citizenship erecting borders against those who are excluded? What are the impacts of changing notions of state, borders, and participation on our concepts of citizenship? Within territorial borders, to what extent are citizens able to participate, given that the principles of accountability, transparency, and representativeness remain ideals? The contributors address the numerous implications of the concept of citizenship for public policy, international law, poverty law, immigration law, constitutional law, history, political science, and sociology.

Author : Antonino Palumbo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 795 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351951432

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Citizenship by Antonino Palumbo Pdf

Interest in citizenship has never been greater. Politicians of all stripes stress its importance, as do church leaders, captains of industry and every kind of campaigning group. Yet, despite this popularity, the nature and even the very possibility of citizenship has never been more contested. Is citizenship intrinsically linked to political participation or is it essentially a legal status? Does it require membership of a state, or is it only post-national, trans- and possibly supra-national? Is it a universal value that should be the same for all, or does it need to recognise gender and cultural differences? This volume reproduces key articles on these debates - from classic accounts of the historical development of citizenship, to discussions of its contemporary relevance and possible forms in a globalizing world.

Author : Sheila L. Croucher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0742516792

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Globalization and Belonging by Sheila L. Croucher Pdf

This is a book that will get us all thinking about the implications of identities in rapidly evolving international and country-by-country politics.

Author : Dora Kostakopoulou
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781786431592

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EU Citizenship Law and Policy by Dora Kostakopoulou Pdf

This theoretically ambitious work combines analytical, institutional and critical approaches in order to provide an in-depth, panoramic and contextual account of European Union citizenship law and policy.

Author : C. Joppke,E. Morawska
Publisher : Springer
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002-12-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230554795

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Toward Assimilation and Citizenship by C. Joppke,E. Morawska Pdf

This book surveys a new trend in immigration studies, which one could characterize as a turn away from multicultural and postnational perspectives, toward a renewed emphasis on assimilation and citizenship. Looking both at state policies and migrant practices, the contributions to this volume argue that (1) citizenship has remained the dominant membership principle in liberal nation-states, (2) multiculturalism policies are everywhere in retreat, and (3) contemporary migrants are simultaneously assimilating and transnationalizing.

Author : Caroline Koegler,Jesper Reddig,Klaus Stierstorfer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783110749830

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Citizenship, Law and Literature by Caroline Koegler,Jesper Reddig,Klaus Stierstorfer Pdf

This edited volume is the first to focus on how concepts of citizenship diversify and stimulate the long-standing field of law and literature, and vice versa. Building on existing research in law and literature as well as literature and citizenship studies, the collection approaches the triangular relationship between citizenship, law and literature from a variety of disciplinary, conceptual and political perspectives, with particular emphasis on the performative aspect inherent in any type of social expression and cultural artefact. The sixteen chapters in this volume present literature as carrying multifarious, at times opposing energies and impulses in relation to citizenship. These range from providing discursive arenas for consolidating, challenging and re-negotiating citizenship to directly interfering with or inspiring processes of law-making and governance. The volume opens up new possibilities for the scholarly understanding of citizenship along two axes: Citizenship-as-Literature: Enacting Citizenship and Citizenship-in-Literature: Conceptualising Citizenship.

Author : Yonique Campbell
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030276218

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Citizenship on the Margins by Yonique Campbell Pdf

This book critically explores the impact of national security, violence and state power on citizenship rights and experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean. Drawing on cross-country analyses and fieldwork conducted in two “garrisons,” a middle-class community and among policy elites in Jamaica—where high levels of violence, in(security) and transnational organized crime are transforming state power —the author argues that dominant responses to security have wider implications for citizenship. The security practices of the state often result in criminalization, police abuse, violation of the rights of the urban poor and increased securitization of garrison spaces. As the tension between national security and citizenship increases, there is a centrality of the local as a site where citizenship is (re)defined, mediated, interpreted, performed and given meaning. While there is a dominant security discourse which focuses on state security, individuals at the local level articulate their own narratives which reflect lived-experiences and the particularities of socio-political milieu.