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    Precarity and Belonging
    Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship

    Catherine S. Ramírez (Edited by), Sylvanna M. Falcón (Edited by), Juan Poblete (Edited by), Steven C. McKay (Edited by), Felicity Amaya Schaeffer (Edited by)

    9781978815636

    Hardback, published 18 June 2021

    304 pages, 2 tables
    23.5 x 15.6 x 2 cm, 0.476 kg

    "This judiciously selected compilation shines by threading the critical link of insecurity through spaces of belonging, labor, and migration across time and contexts. Through the lens of precarity, the insightful, accessible, brilliant essays in this collection expose the complexity and fragility of life at the heart of our troubled times. It breaks new ground and will be read widely."
     
    - Cecilia Menjívar (co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises)
    "This judiciously selected compilation shines by threading the critical link of insecurity through spaces of belonging, labor, and migration across time and contexts. Through the lens of precarity, the insightful, accessible, brilliant essays in this collection expose the complexity and fragility of life at the heart of our troubled times. It breaks new ground and will be read widely."
     
    - Cecilia Menjívar (co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises)
    "Precarity and Belonging is a marvelous and timely collection. The essays brilliantly explore how the increasing precarization of life impacts the social and physical mobility of both citizens and noncitizens, blurring the boundaries between them and thus making possible a politics of commonality."
     
    - Jonathan Xavier Inda (author of Targeting Immigrants: Government, Technology, and Ethics)
    "Precarity and Belonging is a marvelous and timely collection. The essays brilliantly explore how the increasing precarization of life impacts the social and physical mobility of both citizens and noncitizens, blurring the boundaries between them and thus making possible a politics of commonality."
     
    - Jonathan Xavier Inda (author of Targeting Immigrants: Government, Technology, and Ethics)

    Precarity and Belonging examines how the movement of people and their incorporation, marginalization, and exclusion, under epochal conditions of labor and social precarity affecting both citizens and noncitizens, have challenged older notions of citizenship and alienage. This collection brings mobility, precarity, and citizenship together in order to explore the points of contact and friction, and, thus, the spaces for a possible politics of commonality between citizens and noncitizens.The editors ask: What does modern citizenship mean in a world of citizens, denizens, and noncitizens, such as undocumented migrants, guest workers, permanent residents, refugees, detainees, and stateless people? How is the concept of citizenship, based on assumptions of deservingness, legality, and productivity, challenged when people of various and competing statuses and differential citizenship practices interact with each other, revealing their co-constitutive connections? How is citizenship valued or revalued when labor and social precarity impact those who seemingly have formal rights and those who seemingly or effectively do not? This book interrogates such binaries as citizen/noncitizen, insider/outsider, entitled/unentitled, “legal”/“illegal,” and deserving/undeserving in order to explore the fluidity--that is, the dynamism and malleability--of the spectra of belonging.
     
     

    Introduction: Toward a Politics of Commonality: The Nexus of Mobility, Precarity, and (Non)citizenship 
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    Part I Mobility and Migration
    1 More Equal Than Others: Managing the Boundaries of Citizenship 
    BRIDGET ANDERSON

    2 Refractions of the Nation: The Democratic Impacts of “
    Chain Migration”
     
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    3 Racialization of Central Americans in the United States 
    LEISY J. ABREGO AND ALEJANDRO VILLALPANDO

    4 The Waste of Globalization’
    s Party 
    ALEJANDRO GRIMSON

    5 Occupation on Sacred Land: Colliding Mobilities on the Tohono O’
    odham Reservation 
    FELICITY AMAYA SCHAEFFER

    6 A State-to-Come: Tibetan Refugee-Citizenship and the Nation in Exile 
    TSERING WANGMO DHOMPA

    Part II Labor and Precarity
    7 Apartheid, Migrant Labor, and Precarity in Comparative Perspective 
    MARCEL PARET

    8 Labor Precarity, Immigration, and the Challenges of Accessing Worker Rights: Evidence from California 
    SHANNON GLEESON

    9 Negotiating Indenture: Migrant Domestic Work and Temporary Labor Migration in Singapore 
    RHACEL SAL A ZAR PARRE&
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    10 Pocketed Proletarianization: Why There Is No Labor Politics in the “
    World’
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    BIAO XIANG

    11 The Urban Exclusion of Internally Displaced Farmers in MedellÍ
    n, Colombia 
    CLAUDIA MARIA L&
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    Part III Belonging and (Non)citizenship
    12 Exclusionary Inclusion: Applying for Legal Status in the United States 
    SUSAN BIBLER COUTIN AND V&
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    RONIQUE FORTIN

    13 Formal and Informal Citizenships: The Spectrum of Practices and Statuses in Latin America and the United States 
    JUAN POBLTE

    14 Denizenship 227
    NICHOLAS DE GENOVA

    15 Black No More: Black Denizenship and the Struggle for the Future
    CATHERINE S. RAM&
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    REZ

    16 Imperial Citizenship: Marshall Islanders and the Compact of Free Association 
    EMILY MITCHELL-EATON

    Afterword: The Politics of Precarity and Noncitizenship under Global Capitalism 
    TANYA GOLASH-BOZA

    Acknowledgments
    Notes on Contributors 
    Index 
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