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Citizenship, and the Migrant Metropolis: Life Within and Against the Spaces of the Law

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Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)
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Nicholas de Genoa discusses urbanisation, and how migration is remaking cities, the spatial practice of migrants and their experience and how this can reconceptualise emergent formations of social and political rights.
Migration scholars and NGOs have often sought to disassociate popular associations between criminality and immigration: migrants are not criminals, nor are they necessarily more likely to commit crime. But this risks ignoring important relationships between immigration and criminality, both 'immigrant' and 'criminal' for example, are set in opposition to the (good) citizen, both are important administrative categories for states, and comprise groups upon whom the state can exercise significant degrees of coercion. Both are highly racialised. There are also historical continuities: mobility has long been associated with criminality, through vagabondage and the problem of 'masterless men', gypsies and Roma, and 'illegal immigrants'. Both groups can share social and political disabilities - in the US former prisoners are not eligible for further education grants, cannot access welfare payments or food stamps, and in 10 states, are denied the right to vote for life. This seminar series will interrogate the relation between immigration, criminality and citizenship, by exploring these issues.

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Series
Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)
People
Nicholas de Genoa
Keywords
politics
society
integration
migration
immigration
Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Date Added: 14/08/2012
Duration: 00:47:58

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