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Us and Them? explores the distinction between migrant and citizen through using the concept of 'the community of value'. The challenges of migration go to the heart of equality, rights, freedom, and membership. These are not only matters for migrants but go to the heart of citizens' politics.
List of contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Citizenship And The Community Of Value: Exclusion, Failure, Tolerance
- 1: A Chrysalis For Every Species Of Criminal?
- 2: Subjects, Aliens, Citizens, Migrants
- 3: Migration Management: Ending In Tiers
- 4: "British Jobs for British Workers!": Migration and the UK Labour Market
- 5: New Citizens: The Values of Belonging
- 6: Uncivilised Others: Enforcement and Forced Exit
- 7: Uncivilised Others: Rescuing Victims
- 8: Immigration and Domestic Work: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
- 9: Conclusion: Making the Difference
- Bibliography
About the author
Bridget Anderson is Professor of Migration and Citizenship, and Deputy Director and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), Oxford University. Bridget Anderson's research interests include low waged labour migration, deportation, legal status, and citizenship. Publications include Doing the Dirty Work? The Global Politics of Domestic Labour (Zed Books 2000) and Who Needs Migrant Workers? Labour Shortages, Immigration and Public Policy (OUP 2010), co-edited with Martin Ruhs. She has worked with a wide range of national and international NGOs including the Trades Union Congress, the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, and the International Labour Organisation.
Summary
Us and Them? explores the distinction between migrant and citizen through using the concept of 'the community of value'. The challenges of migration go to the heart of equality, rights, freedom, and membership. These are not only matters for migrants but go to the heart of citizens' politics.
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The book leaves anyone interested in justifications of eligibility in social policies motivated to maintain a critical debate about the very foundations of often taken-for-granted assumptions about deservingness, as well as the global and national distribution effects of particular exclusionary policy choices with regard to individual groups' rights, life chances and livelihoods. It certainly teaches us not to hide behind legal catagories and statuses or formal decision-making procedures in our analyses of policies and politics.
