At the Edges of Citizenship: Security and the Constitution of Non-citizen Subjects
| By: | Hepworth, Kate, Dr |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9781472430366 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781472430380 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Proposing a new, dynamic conception of citizenship, this book argues against understandings of citizenship as a collection of rights that can be either possessed or endowed, and demonstrates it is an emergent condition that has temporal and spatial dimensions. Furthermore, citizenship is shown to be continually and contingently reconstituted through the struggles between those considered insiders and outsiders. Significantly, these struggles do not result in a clear division between citizens and non-citizens, but in a multiplicity of states that are at once included within and excluded from the political community.
These liminal states of citizenship are elaborated in relation to three specific forms of non-citizenship: the