The Citizen And The Alien

Author : Linda Bosniak
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400827510

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The Citizen and the Alien by Linda Bosniak Pdf

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 Alien explores the dilemmas of inclusion and exclusion inherent in the practices and institutions of citizenship in liberal democratic societies, especially the United States. In doing so, it offers an important new perspective on the changing meaning of citizenship in a world of highly porous borders and increasing transmigration. As a particular form of noncitizenship, alienage represents a powerful lens through which to examine the meaning of citizenship itself, argues Linda Bosniak. She uses alienage to examine the promises and limits of the "equal citizenship" ideal that animates many constitutional democracies. In the process, she shows how core features of globalization serve to shape the structure of legal and social relationships at the very heart of national societies.

Author : Daniela L. Caglioti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108489423

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War and Citizenship by Daniela L. Caglioti Pdf

Demonstrates how states at war redrew the boundaries between members and non-members, thus redefining belonging and the path to citizenship.

Author : Matthias Hoesch,Nadine Mooren
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030444761

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Joseph Carens: Between Aliens and Citizens by Matthias Hoesch,Nadine Mooren Pdf

This book offers a critical discussion of Joseph Carens’s main works in migration ethics covering themes such as migration, naturalization, citizenship, culture, religion and economic equality. The volume is published on the occasion of the annual Münster Lectures in Philosophy held by Joseph Carens in the fall of 2018. It documents the intellectual exchange with the well-known philosopher Joseph Carens by offering critical contributions on Carens’s work and commentaries of Carens as a reply to these critical contributions. With his various works on migration ethics, Joseph Carens must be seen as one of the leading academics in the political and ethical discourse of migration in the last years. The topic of migration raises questions not only regarding naturalization and citizenship but also cultural, economic and religious differences between aliens, citizens and persons whose status lies in between and calls for further determination. Such questions gain more and more importance in our globalized world as can be seen for example in the context of the refugee crisis in the European Union and the U.S. The book covers different systematic topics of Carens’s work as can be found in his widely read book “The Ethics of Immigration” but also in further publications. It provides papers with critical discussions of Carens’s work as well as his responses to these, thus enabling and documenting the fruitful dialogue between the contributors and Carens himself. The aim of this book is to sharpen and shed light on Carens’s arguments concerning migration by offering new and critical perspectives and fine-grained analyses.

Author : Mae M. Ngai
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400850235

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Impossible Subjects by Mae M. Ngai Pdf

This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy—a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth century. Mae Ngai offers a close reading of the legal regime of restriction that commenced in the 1920s—its statutory architecture, judicial genealogies, administrative enforcement, differential treatment of European and non-European migrants, and long-term effects. She shows that immigration restriction, particularly national-origin and numerical quotas, remapped America both by creating new categories of racial difference and by emphasizing as never before the nation's contiguous land borders and their patrol. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

Author : H. C. Whittaker
Publisher : Grosvenor House Publishing
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786231758

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Citizen/Alien by H. C. Whittaker Pdf

This book is a collection of short stories, based on the author's own life experiences, taking us on a far-reaching journey across continents and cultures. It introduces us to people who have hugely varied lives but that have more in common than first impressions might create. We meet people who are united by love, compassion, empathy, understanding and hope. The author uses her creative skills to share these people and their stories with us, with the intent of encouraging the idea that, regardless of circumstances, holding onto hope will propel us forward and open us up to being able to celebrate the wonderful gift of life and that the hand we are dealt with can be played with passion and optimism.

Author : Ming Hsu Chen
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781503612761

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Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era by Ming Hsu Chen Pdf

Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era provides readers with the everyday perspectives of immigrants on what it is like to try to integrate into American society during a time when immigration policy is focused on enforcement and exclusion. The law says that everyone who is not a citizen is an alien. But the social reality is more complicated. Ming Hsu Chen argues that the citizen/alien binary should instead be reframed as a spectrum of citizenship, a concept that emphasizes continuities between the otherwise distinct experiences of membership and belonging for immigrants seeking to become citizens. To understand citizenship from the perspective of noncitizens, this book utilizes interviews with more than one-hundred immigrants of varying legal statuses about their attempts to integrate economically, socially, politically, and legally during a modern era of intense immigration enforcement. Studying the experiences of green card holders, refugees, military service members, temporary workers, international students, and undocumented immigrants uncovers the common plight that underlies their distinctions: limited legal status breeds a sense of citizenship insecurity for all immigrants that inhibits their full integration into society. Bringing together theories of citizenship with empirical data on integration and analysis of contemporary policy, Chen builds a case that formal citizenship status matters more than ever during times of enforcement and argues for constructing pathways to citizenship that enhance both formal and substantive equality of immigrants.

Author : Golfo Alexopoulos
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501720505

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Stalin's Outcasts by Golfo Alexopoulos Pdf

"I served not in defense of the bourgeois order, but only for a crumb of bread since I was burdened with five small children.""From 1923 to 1925 I worked as a musician but later my earnings weren't steady and I quickly stopped. Without an income to live on, I was drawn to the nonlaboring path.""As a man almost completely illiterate and therefore not prepared for any kind of work, I was forced to return to my craft as a barber.""I am as ignorant as a pipe."Golfo Alexopoulos focuses on the lishentsy ("outcasts") of the interwar USSR to reveal the defining features of alien and citizen identities under Stalin's rule. Although portrayed as "bourgeois elements," lishentsy actually included a wide variety of people, including prostitutes, gamblers, tax evaders, embezzlers, and ethnic minorities, in particular, Jews. The poor, the weak, and the elderly were frequent targets of disenfranchisement, singled out by officials looking to conserve scarce resources or satisfy their superiors with long lists of discovered enemies.Alexopoulos draws heavily on an untapped resource: an archive in western Siberia that contains over 100,000 individual petitions for reinstatement. Her analysis of these and many other documents concerning "class aliens" shows how Bolshevik leaders defined the body politic and how individuals experienced the Soviet state. Personal narratives with which individuals successfully appealed to officials for reinstatement allow an unusual view into the lives of "outcasts." From Kremlin leaders to marked aliens, many participated in identifying insiders and outsiders and challenging the terms of membership in Stalin's new society.

Author : Tomas Hammar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351945370

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Democracy and the Nation State by Tomas Hammar Pdf

First Published in 2016. In this book starts with the discussion located at the crossroads between two basic political principles. The first one is the democratic idea of representative government, based on elections by general suffrage. The second is the nation-state principle which says that the world is divided into sovereign states and that only those who are citizens can claim a right to take part in political life, in other words that foreign citizens are not allowed to participate in political elections. Democracy is honoured almost everywhere, at least as a principle, but the modern system of states presupposes that as a general rule only those who are citizens are entitled to vote, to stand for election, to join parties, and to participate in political debate and give voice to their political demands and interests. Both these basic political principles are young, and their pre sent confrontation is therefore also new to us.

Author : Kunal M. Parker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107030213

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Making Foreigners by Kunal M. Parker Pdf

This book connects the history of immigration with histories of Native Americans, African Americans, women, the poor, Latino/a Americans and Asian Americans.

Author : National Immigration Law Center (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Aliens
ISBN : 0967980208

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Guide to Immigrant Eligibility for Federal Programs by National Immigration Law Center (U.S.) Pdf

Comprehensive, authoritative reference with chapters on 23 major federal programs, and tables outlining who is eligible for which state replacement programs. Overview chapter and tables explain changes to immigrant eligibility enacted by 1996 welfare and immigration laws. Text describes immigration statuses, gives pictures of typical immigration documents, with keys to understanding the INS codes. Glossary defines over 250 immigration and public benefit terms.

Author : Peter J. Spiro
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780195152180

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Beyond Citizenship by Peter J. Spiro Pdf

These communities, Spiro argues, are replacing bonds that once connected people to the nation-state, with profound implications for the future of governance."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Aliens
ISBN : MINN:30000005590827

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U.S. Tax Guide for Aliens by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stanley Hauerwas,William H. Willimon
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780687361595

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Resident Aliens by Stanley Hauerwas,William H. Willimon Pdf

In this bold and visionary book, two leading Christian thinkers explore the alien status of Christians in today's world. A provocative Christian assessment of culture and ministry for people who know that something is wrong.

Author : Katarzyna Marciniak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015064894143

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Alienhood by Katarzyna Marciniak Pdf

"Alien" has a double meaning in the United States, suggesting both "foreigner" and "extraterrestrial creature." In Alienhood, Katarzyna Marciniak explores this semantic duality. Interrogating the dominant images of aliens in American popular culture--and in legal, historical, linguistic, and literary discourses--Marciniak examines "alienhood" and the impact it has on the daily experiences of migrants, legal or illegal. Using examples from exilic literature and cinema, including the works of Julia Alvarez, Eva Hoffman, Gregory Nava, and Roman Polanski, Alienhood theorizes multicultural experiences of liminal characters that belong in the interstices between nations. Investigating gendered, racialized, and ideological formations of "aliens," Marciniak's readings put into dialogue narratives from both the second world and the third world in relation to "first worldness." This dialogue problematizes the meanings of "transnational" and brings the so-called second world into these debates. In doing so, Marciniak reorients the study of immigrant or exile subjects beyond the celebrated notion of transnationalism. With its unique focus on "aliens" in relation to discourses of immigration, exile, and displacement, Alienhood shows how transnationality is, for many dislocated people, an unattainable privilege. Katarzyna Marciniak is associate professor of English at Ohio University.

Author : Helen Irving
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107065109

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Citizenship, Alienage, and the Modern Constitutional State by Helen Irving Pdf

This book tells the long-neglected story of women's marital denaturalization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.