Interrogating "Urban Citizenship"vis-à-visUndocumented Migration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4525462 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Monica W Varsanyi (0000-0001-7348-389X, United States Department of Justice, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 229-249 |
| Publication date | 2006-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Citizenship Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13621020600633168 |
| OpenAlex | W2087565448 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 133 |
| References cited | 73 |
This article critically interrogates the emerging literature on cities and citizenship, with specific reference to undocumented, “illegal”, or irregular migrant status. It first identifies and discusses three major approaches in the cities and citizenship literature, namely: normative, rescaling, and agency-centered approaches. It then interrogates this literature through the lens of migrant legal status and entertains a normative vision of urban citizenship in which a person would become a “citizen” not by explicit consent of fellow citizens, but merely by presence and residence in a place. While the immediate possibilities for such an unbounded, “grounded” citizenship are small, the article takes lessons from this model and discusses a fourth approach to cities and citizenship which explores the contemporary creation of urban “citizenship” policies for undocumented migrants in the United States. It concludes by discussing four brief examples of these local policies: (1) the contemporary struggle to reinstate local noncitizen voting, (2) the increasing acceptance of matrículas consulares as a valid form of identification for undocumented Mexican residents, and the debates over whether or not states should (3) issue driver licenses to undocumented migrants and (4) allow undocumented students to pay in-state tuition for public colleges and universities. Global cities are spaces where the very meaning, content and extent of citizenship are being made and transformed. (Isin, 2000 Isin, E. 2000. Democracy, Citizenship and the Global City, New York: Routledge. [Google Scholar], p. 6) ... It's ridiculous that becoming a citizen in the US is a problem. I've been here for 17 years! This is my home. You need to make a difference where you live! (Undocumented resident of Los Angeles1 1 I interviewed this individual as part of my research on undocumented migrants and residents in Los Angeles who, somewhat paradoxically, have been participating in campaign politics and “get out the vote” drives run by their labor unions. For a thorough discussion and analysis of this field work, see Varsanyi (2005 Varsanyi. 2005. The paradox of contemporary immigrant political mobilization: organized labor, undocumented migrants, and electoral participation in Los Angeles. Antipode, 37(4): 775–795. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]). Quotation translated from Spanish. )
Citizenship · Democracy · Good citizenship · Immigration · Normative · Political science · Politics · Residence · Social science · Sociology · Voting · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Public Administration
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The Queer Politics of Migration
No One is Illegal Between City and Nation
Introduction
Citizenship
Citizenship, Anthropology of
Locating Migration
Contested Solidarity
Social Transformation and Migration
Migrants with a Precarious Status
Citizenship, Dignity, and Security
The Politics of Transition
Citizenship in the Context of Rights and Duties
Reframing sanctuary cities
Protracted refugee situations and the shrinking durable solutions
Little Aleppo
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Improvising “Nonexistent Rights”
Border town authorities and the multilevel politics of the ‘transit migrant’ emergency
Social policy frameworks of exclusion
Public administration, legal culture, and empirical research
Latino civic participation
City government and urban inequalities
From displacement to displaceability
Throwntogetherness’ in hostile environments
Actually existing smart citizens
Fluid Boundaries—British Binge Drinking and European Civility
Insurgent Asylum Policies in European Cities
From Hospitality to Presence
In search of disability rights
Grassroots Citizenship at Multiple Scales
The Emergence of Urban Border Spaces in Europe
The Cracks of Legality and Documentation During Residence in the United States Before Deportation to Mexico
Child Relocations in Africa
Building a welcoming city in the American rust belt
Les migrants irréguliers en ville
Forced migration and the city
The spaces of diaspora’s revitalization
Domicile citizenship, human mobility and territoriality
Stratified citizenship, stratified health
Governance and the everyday state
Limited urban citizenship
Introduction
Immigration Policing Through the Backdoor
Cities of Refuge
Towards a parallel exceptional welfare system
The Variegated Landscape of Local Immigration Policies in the United States
Sanctuary
Minor keywords of political theory
Thinking through Political Subjectivity
Pandemic urban citizenship
The impact of local support and integration policies
Re-Imagining the Nation
Becoming Less Illegal
Brokerage in the sanctuary city
Biopolitical Citizenship in the Immigration Adjudication Process
Comparing Urban Citizenship, Sanctuary Cities, Local Bureaucratic Membership, and Regularizations
Ação direta, luta institucional, construção democrática
Noncitizen Voting Rights in the Global Era
Deserving or undeserving
Coalitions of care
Spaces of intersectional struggle
Incremental urban citizenship-making
Local immigration policies for un(der)documented residents of Athens during the covid-19 pandemic
Lifestyle migrants' urban citizenship and right to have rights
Civil society, the state, and private sponsorship
Montreal’s Sanctuary Policy for Non-Status Migrants
Spiritual Citizenship
Everyday Restriction
Spiritual Citizenship
Newcomer refugee and immigrant youth negotiate transnational civic learning and participation in school
Refugees and civic stratification
Customers, Citizens, and Residents
City Government Activists and the Rights of Undocumented Immigrants
Non‐Status Citizenship and the Paradoxes of Immigration Regimes in a Sanctuary City
Undocumented Immigrant Activism and the Political
A(nother) geography of fear
Making cities through migration industries
I’m local and foreign’
Urbanising migration policy-making
Liberal cities in autocratizing states
Is there anybody out there? The place and role of citizens in tomorrow’s smart cities
Mediating Illegality
The city under constraint
Nation, ‘migration’ and critical practice
Cities Creating Citizens
Sanctuary Cities in Europe? A Policy Survey of Urban Policies in Support of Irregular Migrants
Urban infrastructure and migrant citizenships
Street-level bureaucrats and the governance of unaccompanied migrant children
Negotiating Citizenship on the Frontlines
Driver's Licenses for All? Racialized Illegality and the Implementation of Progressive Immigration Policy in California
Subterranean Detention and Sanctuary from below
Young Refugees' Integration Trajectories-The Critical Role of Local Resources in Germany
Localized Immigration Policy and Migrant Life Experiences
As Políticas Queer De Migração
Negotiating Boundaries of Social Belonging
Constructions of migrant rights in Canada
Between a guest and an okupa
Citizenship acts and immigrant voting rights movements in the US
Irregular migration and democracy
Mastering Space
Re-imagining political community
Limits of citizenship
Spaces of Insurgent Citizenship
Democracy and the global order
Cosmopolitan Citizenship
Mastering Space
The Rights of Others
Cosmopolitanism and Sovereignty
The S.U.V. model of citizenship
The Global City
Toward Assimilation and Citizenship
Rights across Borders
U.S. Immigration Policy in an Age of Rights
Democracy, Citizenship and the Global City
Blurred Boundaries
Between Two Nations
Alienated
Regulating Transnational Citizens in the Post-1996 Welfare Reform Era
Citizenship, identity and transnational migration
Making sense of the new geography of citizenship
Citizenship in the City
The New Politics of Citizenship
Beyond National Citizenship
Immigration and the Boundaries of Citizenship
Who Claims Dual Citizenship? The Limits of Postnationalism, the Possibilities of Transnationalism, and the Persistence of Traditional Citizenship
Immigration and the Boundaries of Citizenship
Towards a Political Theory of Migrant Transnationalism
Managing Contradiction
Migrant Membership as an Instituted Process
Tel Aviv is Not Foreign to You”
The Grassroots Reconfiguration of U.S. Immigration Policy
The Paradox of Contemporary Immigrant Political Mobilization
U.S. Immigration Policy in an Age of Rights
Reimagining Political Community
Cities and Citizenship
There Is an Istanbul That Belongs to Me”
Contemporary European migrations, civic stratification and citizenship
Reconfiguring the spatiality of power
Citizenship for some but not for others
Belonging in Europe
Democracy for All
Metropolis, Memory, and Citizenship
Geopolitics by another name
Belonging'in the Cosmopolitan Imaginary
Intellectuals, cities, and citizenship in the united states
Training a Spotlight on Urban Citizenship
City, region and nation
The formation of Latino citizenship in Southeast Los Angeles
The Repositioning of Citizenship
Cosmopolitical Realism
Mexican Migration and the Social Space of Postmodernism
Introduction
Reinventing Urban Citizenship
Cosmopolitan citizenship
Who is the new citizen? Towards a genealogy
Citizenship studies
Urban space wars
Transnational Citizenries
Citizenship and the right to the global city
Challenges to Citizenship
Daily Life in the Transnational Migrant Community of San Agustín, Oaxaca, and Poughkeepsie, New York
Immigration and the state
Whose City Is It? Globalization and the Formation of New Claims
Cities and Citizenship
Locating Cosmopolitanism
The Global and the Local
Transnationalism in Question
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| Citations per year | 7,39 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
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| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 129 |