Full Description
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. The disjuncture between citizenship and daily life has led to devolution of claims from national to urban space. Within nation-states characterized by structured inequalities, citizens have not reduced their social differences. This leads increasingly to calls for greater direct involvement of marginalized classes in reshaping the institutions and spaces directly affecting their lives.
These concerns cities without citizenship and people without political power inform the agendas of organizations that seek to restructure urban citizenship in more democratic directions. Remaking Urban Citizenship focuses on the uses and limits of such political organizations and coalitions, shows the various ways they pursue expanded rights within the city, and describes the institutional changes necessary to empower global migrants and popular classes as urban citizens.
Offering individual or comparative case studies of cities in the United States, Europe, and China, contributions to this volume describe the development of actual practices of organizations working to reinvigorate citizenship at the urban scale. Collectively, they locate institutional forms that help migrants lay claim to their cities, show how migrants can become politically empowered, and identify how they can expand their rights or find other ways to belong.
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
