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Due to heightened global migration and transnational mobility, many residents of the world's cities lack national citizenship in the places to which they have moved for work, refuge, or retirement
List of contents
I: Conceiving and Locating C itizenship; 1: Remaking Urban Citizenship; 2: The Fluid, Multi-scalar, and Contradictory Construction of Citizenship; II: The R ght to the City : Political Project and Urban Characteristic; 3: Citizens in Search of a City: Towards a New Infrastructure of Political Belonging; 4: Urban Citizenship in New York, Paris, and Barcelona: Immigrant Organizations and the Right to Inhabit the City; 5: Rights through the City: The Urban Basis of Immigrant Rights Struggles in Amsterdam and Paris; III: O rganizing the R ight to the C ity : O rganizations , C itizenship, and the I nstitutionalization of B elonging; 6: Dancing with the State: Migrant Workers, NGOs, and the Remaking of Urban Citizenship in China; 7: Making the Case for Organizational Presence: Civic Inclusion, Access to Resources, and Formal Community Organizations; 8: The Inclusive City: Public-Private Partnerships and Immigrant Rights in San Francisco; 9: Tipping the Scale: State Rescaling and the Strange Odyssey of Chicago's Mexican Hometown Associations; IV: P olitical P ractice and U rban C itizenship: A lternative M odes of P olitical E mpowerment; 10: Insistent Democracy: Neoliberal Governance and Popular Movements in Seattle; 11: Right to the City and the Quiet Appropriations of Local Space in the Heartland; 12: Political Moments with Long-term Consequences
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Andrew M. Greeley
Summary
Due to heightened global migration and transnational mobility, many residents of the world's cities lack national citizenship in the places to which they have moved for work, refuge, or retirement
