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Approaching mobility, precarity, and citizenship at once generates a critical exploration of the points of contact and friction and the potential politics of commonality between citizens and noncitizens. What does modern citizenship mean in a world of citizens, denizens, and noncitizens living under common conditions of labor and social precarity?
Precarity and Belonging interrogates such binaries as citizen/noncitizen, and “legal”/“illegal” to explore the fluidity of the spectra of belonging.
List of contents
Introduction: Toward a Politics of Commonality: The Nexus of Mobility, Precarity, and (Non)citizenship
CATHERINE S. RAMÍRE Z, JUAN POBLETE, SYLVANNA M. FALCÓN, STEVEN C. McKAY, AND FELICITY AMAYA SCHAEFFER
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”
ADRIÁN FÉLIX
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 PARREÑAS AND KRITTIYA KANTACHOTE
10 Pocketed Proletarianization: Why There Is No Labor Politics in the “World’s Factory”
BIAO XIANG
11 The Urban Exclusion of Internally Displaced Farmers in Medellín, Colombia
CLAUDIA MARIA LÓPEZ
Part III Belonging and (Non)citizenship 12 Exclusionary Inclusion: Applying for Legal Status in the United States
SUSAN BIBLER COUTIN AND VÉRONIQUE 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. RAMÍREZ
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
About the author
CATHERINE S. RAMÍREZ is an associate professor of Latin American and Latino studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of
Assimilation: An Alternative History and
The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Memory.
SYLVANNA M. FALCÓN is an associate professor of Latin American and Latino studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of the award-winning book
Power Interrupted: Antiracist and Feminist Activism inside the United Nations and co-editor of
New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights.
JUAN POBLETE is a professor of literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of
Hacia una historia de la lectura y la pedagogía literaria en América Latina and
La Escritura de Pedro Lemebel and editor of
New Approaches to Latin American Studies and
Critical Latin American and Latino Studies.
STEVEN C. McKAY is an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of
Satanic Mills or Silicon Islands? The Politics of High-Tech Production in the Philippines and co-editor of
New Routes for Diaspora Studies. FELICITY AMAYA SCHAEFFER is an associate professor of feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of
Love and Empire: Cybermarriage and Citizenship across the Americas.
Summary
Examines how the movement of people and their incorporation, marginalization, and exclusion, under epochal conditions of labour and social precarity affecting both citizens and noncitizens, have challenged older notions of citizenship and alienage.
