1st Edition

Theorising Noncitizenship Concepts, Debates and Challenges

Edited By Katherine Tonkiss, Tendayi Bloom Copyright 2017
146 Pages
by Routledge

146 Pages
by Routledge

146 Pages
by Routledge

‘Noncitizenship’, if it is considered at all, is generally seen only as the negation or deprivation of citizenship. It is rarely examined in its own right, whether in relation to States, to noncitizens, or citizens. This means that it is difficult to examine successfully the status of noncitizens, obligations towards them, and the nature of their role in political systems. As a result, not only... Read more

1. Theorising noncitizenship: concepts, debates and challenges
Katherine Tonkiss and Tendayi Bloom

2. Assembling noncitizenship through the work of conditionality
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3. Unequal access to human rights: the categories of noncitizenship
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4. The business of noncitizenship
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5. Rooted displacement: the paradox of belonging among stateless people
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6. Citizenship and inclusion: rethinking the analytical category of noncitizenship
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7. Contractualization, depoliticization and the limits of solidarity: noncitizens in contemporary Australia
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8. These fine lines: locating noncitizenship in political protest in Europe
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Biography

Katherine Tonkiss is a Lecturer in Sociology and Policy at the School of Languages and Social Sciences, Aston University. She is interested in the ethics of migration, immigration policy, and post-national theories of citizenship.

Tendayi Bloom is Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer on the Global Justice Program, Yale University. Her work examines the nature of justice in the relationships between noncitizens, stateless persons and States.