Ambiguous Citizenship in an Age of Global Migration

Bibliographic Data

ID20007032
AuthorsAoileann Ní Mhurchú (0000-0002-2886-6944, corresponding author)
Year2014
Publication date2014-08-31
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueAmbiguous Citizenship in an Age of Global Migration (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherEdinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3366/edinburgh/9780748692774.001.0001
OpenAlexW1031729385
Open LibraryOL28357833M
ISBN9780748692774
LanguageEN
Citations received18

Many people see citizenship in a globalised world in terms of binaries: inclusion/exclusion, past/present, particularism/universalism. Aoileann Ní Mhurchú; points out the limitations of these positions and argues that we need to be able to take into account the people who get caught between these traditional categories. Using critical resources found in poststructural, psychoanalytic and postcolonial thought, Ní Mhurchú thinks in new ways about citizenship, drawing on a range of thinkers including Kristeva, Bhabha and Foucault. Taking a distinctive theoretical approach, she shows how citizenship is being reconfigured beyond these categories. Key Features * Provides a new framework for thinking about the limitations of current citizenship scholarship *Links existing insights on intergenerational migration with new literature on citizenship through empirical research *Develops a new way of thinking about the increasingly discontinuous and fragmented nature of citizenship through the concept of trace *Contributes to the growing interdisciplinary field of critical citizenship studies (CCS), which is exploring new forms of citizenship in a globalised world

Citizenship · Epistemology · Global citizenship · Inclusion (mineral) · Inclusion–exclusion principle · Political science · Politics · Postmodernism · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Scholarship · Sociology · Universalism · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics · emigration and immigration · Globalization · Migration, immigration & emigration · Moral and ethical aspects