The Citizen and the Alien

Dilemmas of Contemporary Membership

Linda Bosniak (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2006
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
9780691116228 (ISBN)

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Explores the dilemmas of inclusion and exclusion inherent in the practices and institutions of citizenship in liberal democratic societies. This book offers a perspective on the meaning of citizenship in a world of porous borders and increasing transmigration. It uses alienage to examine the promises and limits of the 'equal citizenship' ideal.

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.

Linda Bosniak is a professor at the Rutgers University School of Law.

Acknowledgments xi CHAPTER 1: Divided Citizenships 1 CHAPTER 2: Defining Citizenship: Substance, Locations, and Subjects 17 CHAPTER 3: The Difference That Alienage Makes 37 CHAPTER 4: Constitutional Citizenship through the Prism of Alienage 77 CHAPTER 5: Borders, Domestic Work, and the Ambiguities of Citizenship 102 CHAPTER 6: Separate Spheres Citizenship and Its Conundrums 122 Notes 141 Index 215

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.9.2006
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 235 mm
Gewicht	482 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-13	9780691116228 / 9780691116228
Zustand	Neuware