Citizenship, migrant activism and the politics of movement. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Peter Nyers and Kim Rygiel.
• Other Names: Nyers, Peter; Rygiel, Kim
• Contents: Introduction: citizenship, migrant activism, and the politics of movement -- Securitized migrants and postcolonial (in)difference: the politics of activisms among North African migrants in France / Alina Sajed -- Claiming rights, asserting belonging: contesting citizenship in the UK / Ruth Grove-White -- Ungrateful subjects? refugee protests and the logic of gratitude / Carolina Moulin -- "We are all foreigners": no borders as a practical political project / Bridget Anderson, Nandita Sharma and Cynthia Wright -- Ethnography and human rights: the experience of APDHA with Nigerian sex workers in Andalucía / Estefanía Acién González -- Moments of solidarity, migrant activism and (non)citizens at global borders: political agency at Tanzanian refugee camps, Australian detention centres and European borders / Heather Johnson -- Building a sanctuary city: municipal migrant rights in the city of Toronto / Jean McDonald -- Taking not waiting: space, temporality and politics in the city of sanctuary movement / Vicki Squire and Jennifer Bagelman -- Undocumented citizens? shifting grounds of citizenship in Los Angeles / Anne McNevin.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (200 pages), (5 illustrations)
• Subjects: 325; Immigrants -- Political activity; Immigrants -- Civil rights; Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781136448409; 1136448403
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.