Prohibited Realities and Fractured Persons: Remaking Lives in Transnational Spaces
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Susan Bibler Coutin
This review explores the ways that Bosniak’s The Citizen and the Alien and Shachar’s The Birthright Lottery usefully expose gaps between permissible and prohibited realities and persons. Drawing on ethnographic research regarding immigration from Central America to the United States, the review also highlights the importance of analyzing the transnational, states’ property-like claims on their migrant citizens, and the transformative dimensions of jus soli. This ethnographic material suggests that discrepancies between inclusive social connections and confining legal statuses “fracture” persons, requiring them to exist in multiple yet incompatible worlds. The review concludes that notions of citizenship and alienage must take such fracturing into account.
©2012 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Article
- Denaturalizing Citizenship: An Introduction
- Making Membership
- Boundaries and Birthright: Bosniak's and Shachar's Critiques of Liberal Citizenship
- The Political Challenges of Bounded, Unequal Citizenships
- The Dark Side of Citizenship: Membership, Territory, and the (Anti-) Democratic Polity
- Rethinking Citizenship through Alienage and Birthright Privilege: Bosniak and Shachar's Critiques of Liberal Citizenship
- Creedal Citizenship
- Prohibited Realities and Fractured Persons: Remaking Lives in Transnational Spaces
- Developing Citizenship
- The Geometry of Inside and Outside
- Alien Equality
- Making Sense of Citizenship
- The Birthright Lottery: Response to Interlocutors
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Article
- Denaturalizing Citizenship: An Introduction
- Making Membership
- Boundaries and Birthright: Bosniak's and Shachar's Critiques of Liberal Citizenship
- The Political Challenges of Bounded, Unequal Citizenships
- The Dark Side of Citizenship: Membership, Territory, and the (Anti-) Democratic Polity
- Rethinking Citizenship through Alienage and Birthright Privilege: Bosniak and Shachar's Critiques of Liberal Citizenship
- Creedal Citizenship
- Prohibited Realities and Fractured Persons: Remaking Lives in Transnational Spaces
- Developing Citizenship
- The Geometry of Inside and Outside
- Alien Equality
- Making Sense of Citizenship
- The Birthright Lottery: Response to Interlocutors
