Full Description
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.
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
