Making and Unmaking Global CitizenshipLived Experiences of Precarious Migration
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About this book
Studies how the claims of people with lived experiences of precarity and displacement refuse, disrupt and enact various alternatives to violent bordering practices
- Introduces ‘global citizenship in the making’ as a framework for the analysis of migratory claims
- Evaluates different interpretations of the politics of precarious migration, including coloniality, racial capitalism, abolition and global citizenship
- Develops a novel account of claims as implicit as well as explicit, and as indirect as well as direct
- Draws on research across multiple contexts conducted over two decades, including the Mediterranean, the Mexico-US border region, sub-Saharan Africa and the UK
How do lived experiences of precarious migration generate claims to rights, belonging and accountability? To what extent does global citizenship in the making provide an analytical framework that helps to make sense of such claims? And in what ways do claims in situations of precarity trouble conventional ideas of citizenship and ‘the international’?
This book draws on research conducted over two decades with people experiencing the violence of contemporary governing practices first-hand. Based on case studies including the Mediterranean, the Mexico-US border region, sub-Saharan Africa and the UK, it charts a multiplicity of ways through which claims are enacted in situations of precarity. The book highlights the potential and the limits of global citizenship in the making.
Vicki Squire concludes that theories of coloniality, racial capitalism and abolition provide critical insights for a migrant-oriented perspective on the politics of precarious migration.
Reviews
In this important book, Vicki Squire upends our understanding of the international by asking who and what constitutes the political. Decentring states and citizens, Squire provides an alternate account of political subjectivity that is grounded in the lived experience of migrants, their struggles but also their refusals, resistance, and demands for a politics otherwise.
Vicki Squire's exploration of how precarious migrants assert their political subjectivities is a powerful and deeply reflexive reconfiguration of our usual frames of reference. In revealing the multiple ways that migrants navigate the constitutive violence of their condition – sometimes quietly, sometimes loudly, always carefully – she opens up new ways for all of us to consider what it means to be a political subject.”
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Politics of Precarious Migration: Citizenship, Claims and Global Politics
Part I: Refusals
1. Global Citizenship in the Making? Claims to Rights, Belonging and Accountability
2. Claims Making in Precarity: Diverse Types and Forms of Claims
Part II: Disruptions
3. Making Claims Through Things: Dehumanisation and Dispossession
4. Claiming Data Through Frictions: Coloniality and Epistemic Violence
PART III: Alternatives
5. Enacting Mutual Support: The ‘Hostile Environment’ and Ambient Racism
6. Building Abolitionist Bridges: Intimate Politics and Non-Reformist Reforms
Conclusion: The Making and Unmaking of Global Citizenship: Horizons of Research and Politics
Bibliography
Appendix: List of claims represented in Figures
Notes
Index