Book

Citizenship, Migrant Activism and the Politics of Movement

Nyers, Peter, Rygiel, Kim

2011

Overview

Migration is an inescapable issue in the public debates and political agendas of Western countries, with refugees and migrants increasingly viewed through the lens of security. This book analyses recent shifts in the governing of global mobility from the perspective of the politics of citizenship, utilising an interdisciplinary approach that employs politics, sociology, anthropology and history. Featuring an international group of leading and emerging researchers working on the intersection of migrant politics and citizenship studies, this book investigates how restrictions on mobility are generating not only new forms of inequality and social exclusion, but also new forms of political activism and citizenship identities. The authors present and discuss the perspectives, experiences, knowledge and voices of migrants and migrant rights activists, in order to better understand the specific strategies, tactics and knowledge that politicised non-citizen migrant groups produce in their encounters with border controls and security technologies. The book focuses the debate of migration, security and mobility rights onto grass-roots politics and social movements, making an important intervention into the fields of migration studies and critical citizenship studies. Citizenship, Migrant Activism and the Politics of Movement will be of interest to students and scholars of migration and security politics, globalisation, and citizenship studies.

• Publisher: Routledge
• ISBN: 9780415605779, 0415605776