Full Description
This edited volume explores the complex and varied pathways to citizenship that migrants navigate in both sending and receiving countries. By examining the diverse strategies which migrants employ to handle uncertainties and global disparities, this work highlights how citizenship pathways evolve across national and transnational spaces, as well as over time. Citizenship pathways are defined as the routes and processes through which migrants achieve citizenship recognition and redistribution, influencing their pursuit of personal and family goals. This approach reveals how different migrant groups experience membership and access economic opportunities, with some gaining political and social rights while others face denial. Additionally, migrants' responses to policy changes and their adaptive strategies reshape citizenship practices. This volume underscores the dynamic interplay between migration and citizenship, illustrating how power relations among states, migrants, and non-migrants are continuously renegotiated, affecting societal structures and individual life choices.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Contents
Introduction: Migration and Citizenship Pathways in/beyond Asia 1. Dreaming the Canadian Dream: citizenship pathways and migration influencers in Canada 2. When citizenship is off the table: the comfortable transience of high-skilled Indian women migrants in the UAE 3. Citizenship pathways of children with cross-national parents: strategic and affective contemplations of citizenship choice 4. Bumps, hits, and hurdles: Multidirectional citizenship pathways across the Taiwan Strait 5. Reproducing multicultural citizens: citizenship pathways of Southeast Asian immigrant mothers in Taiwan 6. Citizenship pathways of "new immigrants" in the later life-course in Singapore 7. Mobility and citizenship pathways of Vietnamese middling migrants in Australia: "Road to Mount OlymPR 8. From "disposable labour" to "desirable citizen": Chinese migrant worker-turned-marriage migrants negotiating citizenship pathways in Singapore 9. Territorial claims, unclaimed people: the postcolonial geopolitics of statelessness in Sabah, Malaysia
