Spaces of Immigrant Advocacy and Liberal Democratic Citizenship

Bibliographic Data

ID8375445
AuthorsHelga Leitner (0000-0002-2568-6358, University of California, Los Angeles), Christopher Strunk (Augustana College)
Year2014
Volume104
Issue2
Pages348-356
Publication date2014-03-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnnals of the Association of American Geographers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0004-5608 • E-ISSN: 1467-8306
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00045608.2013.875806
OpenAlexW2029311517
LanguageEN
Citations received31
References cited45

Challenging representations of immigrants as victims of the biopolitical power of the state, and of citizenship as reinforcing such repression, this article interrogates how immigrant advocacy has been contesting the proliferation of exclusionary immigration policies in the United States and in the course of this pushing against the boundaries of formal liberal democratic citizenship. Using Washington, DC, as a case study, and deploying the concept of insurgent citizenship to theorize these actions, we examine the polyvalence of immigrant advocacy, paying particular attention to the spaces and scales of struggle and flexibly networked mobilizations. Insurgent citizenship creates new political spaces that exceed the national territorial framing of liberal democratic citizenship, that focus on civic action rather than simply relying on the electoral process, and that lay claim to new values and criteria for citizenship

Citizenship · Democracy · Framing (construction) · Geography · Immigration · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Public Administration