Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: Toward a Politics of Commonality: The Nexus of Mobility, Precarity, and (Non)citizenship 1
4. Part I Mobility and Migration
5. 1 More Equal Than Others: Managing the Boundaries of Citizenship 19
6. 2 Refractions of the Nation: The Democratic Impacts of “Chain Migration” 32
7. 3 Racialization of Central Americans in the United States 51
8. 4 The Waste of Globalization’s Party 67
9. 5 Occupation on Sacred Land: Colliding Mobilities on the Tohono O’odham Reservation 84
10. 6 A State-to- Come: Tibetan Refugee-Citizenship and the Nation in Exile 100
11. Part II Labor and Precarity
12. 7 Apartheid, Migrant Labor, and Precarity in Comparative Perspective 113
13. 8 Labor Precarity, Immigration, and the Challenges of Accessing Worker Rights: Evidence from California 131
14. 9 Negotiating Indenture: Migrant Domestic Work and Temporary Labor Migration in Singapore 145
15. 10 Pocketed Proletarianization: Why There Is No Labor Politics in the “World’s Factory” 161
16. 11 The Urban Exclusion of Internally Displaced Farmers in Medellín, Colombia 176
17. Part III Belonging and (Non)citizenship
18. 12 Exclusionary Inclusion: Applying for Legal Status in the United States 191
19. 13 Formal and Informal Citizenships: The Spectrum of Practices and Statuses in Latin America and the United States 209
20. 14 Denizenship 227
21. 15 Black No More: Black Denizenship and the Struggle for the Future 243
22. 16 Imperial Citizenship: Marshall Islanders and the Compact of Free Association 256
23. Afterword: The Politics of Precarity and Noncitizenship under Global Capitalism 266
24. Acknowledgments 275
25. Notes on Contributors 277
26. Index 281