1st Edition

Securitizations of Citizenship

Edited By Peter Nyers Copyright 2009
224 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

Securitizations of Citizenship investigates how the fate of citizenship is now caught up in a dramatic and dangerous process of securitizing political communities. In the nervous state of affairs of the post-9/11 period, technologies of surveillance and control are rapidly proliferating, creating severe constraints for the enactment of citizenship practices. While citizenship has always faced... Read more

Introduction: Securitizations of Citizenship - Peter Nyers 1: The Neurotic Citizen - Engin F. Isin  2: Secure Borders, Safe Haven, Domopolitics - William Walters 3: Renormalizing Citizenship and Life in Fortress North America - Davina Bhandar 4: (Dis)Qualified Bodies: Securitization, Citizenship and ‘Identity Management’ - Benjamin J. Muller 5: Security, Flexible Sovereignty, and the Perils of Multiple Citizenship - Daiva Stasiulis and Darryl Ross 6: The Accidental Citizen - Peter Nyers 7: Political Belonging in a Neoliberal Era: The Struggle of the Sans-Papiers - Anne McNevin 8: The Production of Culprits: From Deportability to Detainability in the Aftermath of ‘Homeland Security’ - Nicholas De Genova 9: Citizenship for all - Barry Hindess

Biography

Peter Nyers is Assistant Professor of the Politics of Citizenship and Intercultural Relations in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University. He is the author of Rethinking Refugees: Beyond States of Emergency and co-editor of Citizenship between Past and Future (both published by Routledge).