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Author Bosniak, Linda.

Title The citizen and the alien : dilemmas of contemporary membership / Linda Bosniak.

Publication Info. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2006]
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 222 pages)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-213) and index.
Contents Divided citizenships -- Defining citizenship : substance, locations, subjects -- The difference that alienage makes -- Constitutional citizenship through the prism of alienage -- Borders, domestic work, and the ambiguities of citizenship -- Separate spheres citizenship and its conundrums.
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.
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Subject Citizenship.
Noncitizens.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Civics & Citizenship.
Aliens. (OCoLC)fst00805278
Citizenship. (OCoLC)fst00861909
Burgerschap.
Immigranten.
United States.
Rechtsstellung.
Fremder.
Citoyenneté.
Droit.
Étranger.
Marginalité sociale.
Statut juridique.
United States.
Bürger.
Other Form: Print version: Bosniak, Linda. Citizen and the alien. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2006 0691116229 9780691116228 (DLC) 2005034124 (OCoLC)62330888
ISBN 9781400827510 (electronic book)
1400827515 (electronic book)
0691116229 (alkaline paper)
9780691116228 (alkaline paper)
9780691138282
0691138281
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