Within and Beyond Citizenship ― Borders, Membership and Belonging

Within and Beyond Citizenship brings together cutting-edge research in sociology and social anthropology on the relationship between legal status, rights and belonging in contemporary societies of immigration, to offer a daring new perspective on these questions. It offers new insights into the ways in which political membership is experienced, spatially and bureaucratically constructed, and actively negotiated and contested in the everyday lives of citizens and non-citizens. Themes, concepts and ideas covered include:

• The shifting position of the non-citizen in contemporary immigration societies;
• The intersection of migration, Human mobility, immigration control and articulations of citizenship;
• Activism and everyday practices of membership and belonging;
• Tension in policy and practice between coexisting traditions and regimes of rights;
• Mixed status families, belonging and citizenship;
• The ways in which legal status (or its absence) intersects with social cleavages such as age, class, gender and ‘race’ to shape social relations.

This book will appeal to academics and practitioner’s working in the disciplines of Social and Political Anthropology, Sociology, Social Policy, Political Sciences, Citizenship Studies and Migration Studies.

Roberto G. Gonzales is Assistant Professor at Harvard University Graduate School of Education. His research focuses on the factors that promote and impede the educational progress of immigrant and Latino students. Over the last decade and a half Professor Gonzales has been engaged in critical inquiry around the important question of what happens to undocumented immigrant children as they make transitions to adolescence and young adulthood. Since 2002 he has carried out what is arguably the most comprehensive study of undocumented immigrants in the United States. His book, Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America (University of California Press), is based on an in-depth study that followed 150 undocumented young adults in Los Angeles for twelve years. In addition, Professor Gonzales’ National UnDACAmented Research Project has surveyed nearly 2,700 undocumented young adults and has carried out 500 in-depth interviews on their experiences following President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

Dr Nando Sigona is Senior Birmingham Fellow and Senior Lecturer. Previously, he was Senior Researcher at the Refugee Studies Centre and Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford. His work has appeared in a range of peer reviewed journals, including Sociology, Social Anthropology, Citizenship Studies, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and Ethnic and Racial Studies. He has significant editorial experience. He is author or editor of books and journal’s special issues including the Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (with Elena Fiddian Qasmiyeh, Katy Long and Gill Loescher, Oxford University Press 2014), Ethnography, diversity and urban change (with Mette L. Berg and Ben Gidley, special issue of Identities, 2013), Romani politics in contemporary Europe: poverty, ethnic mobilisation and the neoliberal order (edited with Nidhi Trehan, Palgrave, 2009), Refugee Community Organisations and Dispersal: Networks, Resources and Social Capital (authored with David Griffiths and Roger Zetter, Policy Press, 2005), The Roma in the new EU: Polices, Frames and Everyday Experiences (with Peter Vermeersch, special issue of Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2012).