- Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 209 pages)
- Summary
- Us and Them? explores the distinction between migrant and citizen through using the concept of 'the community of value'. The community of value is comprised of Good Citizens and is defined from outside by the Non-Citizen and from the inside by the Failed Citizen, that is figures like the benefit scrounger, the criminal, the teenage mother etc. While Failed Citizens and Non-Citizens are often strongly differentiated, the book argues that it is analytically and politically productive to consider them together. Judgments about who counts as skilled, what is a good marriage, who is suitable for citizenship, and what sort of enforcement is acceptable against 'illegals', affect citizens as well as migrants. Rather than simple competitors for the privileges of membership, citizens and migrants define each other through sets of relations that shift and are not straightforward binaries. The first two chapters on vagrancy and on Empire historicise migration management by linking it to attempts to control the mobility of the poor. The following three chapters map and interrogate the concept of the 'national labour market' and UK immigration and citizenship policies examining how they work within public debate to produce 'us and them'. Chapters 6 and 7 go on to discuss the challenges posed by enforcement and deportation, and the attempt to make this compatible with liberalism through anti-trafficking policies. It ends with a case study of domestic labour as exemplifying the ways in which all the issues outlined above come together in the lives of migrants and their employers.
- Uniform Title
- Us and them? (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Us and them? (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-203) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction: Citizenship and the community of value : exclusion, failure, tolerance -- The chrysalis for every species of criminal? : vagrancy, settlement, and mobility -- Subjects, aliens, citizens, migrants -- Migration management : ending in tiers -- "British jobs for British workers!" : migration and the UK labour market -- New citizens : the values of belonging -- Uncivilized others : enforcement and forced exit -- Uncivilized others : rescuing victims -- Immigration and domestic work : between a rock and a hard place -- Conclusion: Making the difference.
- LCCN
- 2012376304
- OCLC
- ssj0000909106
- Author
Anderson, Bridget (Sociologist)
- Title
Us and them? [electronic resource] : the dangerous politics of immigration control / Bridget Anderson.
- Imprint
Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Edition
First edition.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-203) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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