The citizen and the alien : dilemmas of contemporary membership /

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Author / Creator:Bosniak, Linda.
Imprint:Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2006.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 222 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11198129
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ISBN:9781400827510
1400827515
0691116229
9780691116228
9780691138282
0691138281
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-213) and index.
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Summary: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 l.
Other form:Print version: Bosniak, Linda. Citizen and the alien. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2006 0691116229 9780691116228