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Citizenship
Cohen, Elizabeth F., 1973-Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2019."Although we live in a period of unprecedented globalization and migration, citizenship matters more than ever. Here, Elizabeth F. Cohen and Cyril Ghosh examine multiple facets of the concept, including classic and contemporary theories, historical development, and lived experience. This book is essential reading for students and scholars alike"--Although we live in a period of unprecedented globalization and mass migration, many contemporary western liberal democracies are asserting their sovereignty over who gets to become members of their polities with renewed ferocity. Citizenship matters more than ever. In this book, Elizabeth F. Cohen and Cyril Ghosh provide a concise and comprehensive introduction to the concept of citizenship and evaluate the idea's continuing relevance in the 21st century. They examine multiple facets of the concept, including the classic and contemporary theories that inform the practice of citizenship, the historical development of citizenship as a practice, and citizenship as an instrument of administrative rationality as well as lived experience. They show how access to a range of rights and privileges that accrue from citizenship in countries of the global north is creating a global citizenship-based caste system. This skillful critical appraisal of citizenship in the context of phenomena such as the global refugee crisis, South-North migration, and growing demands for minority rights will be essential reading for students and scholars of citizenship, migration studies and democratic theory.
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Citizenship
Kochenov, Dimitry, 1979-Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2019]"The glorification of citizenship is a given in today's world, part of a civic narrative that invokes liberation, dignity, and nationhood. In reality...citizenship is a story of complacency, hypocrisy, and domination, flattering to citizens and demeaning for noncitizens...[This book] explains the state of citizenship in the modern world. [The author] offers a critical introduction to a subject most often regarded uncritically, describing what citizenship is, what it entails, how it came about, and how its role in the world has been changing. He examines four key elements of the concept: status, considering how and why the status of citizenship is extended, what function it serves, and who is left behind; rights, particularly the right to live and work in a state; duties, and what it means to be a 'good citizen'; and politics, as enacted in the granting and enjoyment of citizenship. Citizenship promises to apply the attractive ideas of dignity, equality, and human worth—but to strictly separated groups of individuals. Those outside the separation aren't citizens as currently understood, and they do not belong. Citizenship, [the author] warns, is too often a legal tool that justifies violence, humiliation, and exclusion."--The story of citizenship as a tale not of liberation, dignity, and nationhood but of complacency, hypocrisy, and domination. The glorification of citizenship is a given in today's world, part of a civic narrative that invokes liberation, dignity, and nationhood. In reality, explains Dimitry Kochenov, citizenship is a story of complacency, hypocrisy, and domination, flattering to citizens and demeaning for noncitizens. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Kochenov explains the state of citizenship in the modern world. Kochenov offers a critical introduction to a subject most often regarded uncritically, describing what citizenship is, what it entails, how it came about, and how its role in the world has been changing. He examines four key elements of the concept: status, considering how and why the status of citizenship is extended, what function it serves, and who is left behind; rights, particularly the right to live and work in a state; duties, and what it means to be a "good citizen"; and politics, as enacted in the granting and enjoyment of citizenship. Citizenship promises to apply the attractive ideas of dignity, equality, and human worth-but to strictly separated groups of individuals. Those outside the separation aren't citizens as currently understood, and they do not belong. Citizenship, Kochenov warns, is too often a legal tool that justifies violence, humiliation, and exclusion.
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Citizenship
Faulks, KeithLondon ; New York : Routledge, 2000.This book presents a comprehensive and authoritative overview of citizenship, which has become one of the most important political ideas of our time. It is contended that citizenship has great emancipatory potential as an egalitarian status which recognises both the rights to which we are entitled and the responsibilities upon which stable governance rests. For this potential to be fulfilled, however, Faulks argues that citizenship must be freed from its close association in modernity with the state and the market, which in practice has undermined the significance of our rights and responsibilities. In advancing a postmodern theory of citizenship this work addresses such topical questions as: Can citizenship exist without the nation-state? What should the balance be between our rights and responsibilities? Should we enjoy group as well as individual rights? Is citizenship relevant to our private as well as our public lives? Have processes of globalisation rendered citizenship redundant?
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Immigrants, refugees and borders: April book exhibit
Stanford University Libraries has a monthly book exhibit of circulating books in Green Library in order to highlight special topics. For April 2017, librarians in the social sciences, humanities and area studies have curated a sample of selected resources on "Immigration, Refugees and Borders". The image of "Mis Madres" by Ester Hernandez is from the Stanford Libraries' Special Collections M1301 and is reproduced here courtesy of the artist. This image of "Mis Madres" or "My Mothers" was selected as an elegant reminder that humanity is bound to one earth and that the borders that separate us are created by us. This exhibit was pieced together with the knowledge that the political, economic and social boundaries that separate us are complex and this exhibit only scratches the surface of possible research paths. The books on display include fiction and non-fiction titles. The viewpoints of the texts represent a wide array of perspectives. There is also a selection of films in Media-Microtext and through our online streaming media service, Kanopy, which highlights feature films and documentary films that may be of interest. Additional select films have be listed in a topic guide by the curator of the Italian Collections. This guide is titled, "Immigration in Italian film". More selected film titles are suggested on the exhibit posters on display outside the Media- Microtext center and many more are available through Searchworks. Infographics from the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR) and from KQED's "The Lowdown" are also on display in the Green East Lobby. The Lowdown graphics have been reproduced courtesy of Andy Warner and The Lowdown, KQED News Education. They include "Who Are California’s Undocumented Immigrants? A Cartoon Explainer" (2016) by And Warner and "The Refugee Crisis: What You Need to Know [A Comic Infographic]" (2015) by Andy Warner. These infographics highlight the differences between migrant and refugee status. They also mark the complex and difficult journeys that people navigate in search of better living conditions and livelihoods. These graphics also highlight the statistical sources for research in these areas. These statistical sources can be found through Stanford Libraries subscriptions and by contacting data services librarians in Social Science Data & Software (SSDS). They are available for consultations on finding and using related data. The Cubberley Education Library has also created guide pages for select resources: Immigrants and refugees in books for children and young adults Immigrant and migrant education Statistical information and sources can be found in this course guide that was created for a Sociology class on demographic processes. Resources on citizenship can be found in this course page on "Speaking out: claiming citizenship, demanding rights". If you have any questions regarding this exhibit, please contact Regina Roberts.
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Book Talk & Signing: Nisei Naysayer: The Memoir of Militant Japanese American Journalist Jimmie Omura
Join us for a thought-provoking talk as historian Arthur Hansen discusses the recently published memoir of Japanese American journalist James "Jimmie" Matsumoto Omura. Hansen served as the editor of the volume, titled Nisei Naysayer: The Memoir of Militant Japanese American journalist Jimmie Omura, and recently published by Stanford University Press. Signed copies will be available for sale. Among the fiercest opponents of the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II was journalist James "Jimmie" Matsumoto Omura. In his sharp-penned columns, Omura fearlessly called out leaders in the Nikkei community for what he saw as their complicity with the U.S. government's unjust and unconstitutional policies—particularly the federal decision to draft imprisoned Nisei into the military without first restoring their lost citizenship rights. In 1944, Omura was pushed out of his editorship of the Japanese American newspaper Rocky Shimpo, indicted, arrested, jailed, and forced to stand trial for unlawful conspiracy to counsel, aid, and abet violations of the military draft. He was among the first Nikkei to seek governmental redress and reparations for wartime violations of civil liberties and human rights. In this memoir, which he began writing towards the end of his life, Omura provides a vivid account of his early years: his boyhood on Bainbridge Island; summers spent working in the salmon canneries of Alaska; riding the rails in search of work during the Great Depression; honing his skills as a journalist in Los Angeles and San Francisco. By the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Omura had already developed a reputation as one of the Japanese American Citizens League's most adamant critics, and when the JACL leadership acquiesced to the mass incarceration of American-born Japanese, he refused to remain silent, at great personal and professional cost. Shunned by the Nikkei community and excluded from the standard narrative of Japanese American wartime incarceration until later in life, Omura seeks in this memoir to correct the "cockeyed history to which Japanese America has been exposed." Edited and with an introduction by historian Arthur A. Hansen, and with contributions from Asian American activists and writers Frank Chin, Yosh Kuromiya, and Frank Abe, Nisei Naysayer provides an essential, firsthand account of Japanese American wartime resistance. James Omura's papers, which include personal diaries, are held in the Department of Special Collections in Green Library: A small exhibit will accompany Professor Hansen's talk. About the authors:James Matsumoto Omura (1912–1994) was a newspaper editor and later operated a landscaping business in Denver, Colorado. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Asian American Journalists Association in 1989.Arthur A. Hansen is Professor Emeritus of History and Asian American Studies at California State University, Fullerton.
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Citizenship Cards, Ecuador, 2010
East View Cartographic, Inc and Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (Ecuador)2010This polygon shapefile contains statistics on citizenship cards from the 2010 Census of Ecuador. The census information was collected by the Instit...
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Massachusetts Town Populations by Citizenship
1990This datalayer is a polygon coverage of Massachusetts' towns populations organized by citizenship, foreign-born status, age group and date of entry...
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National Registry, Honduras, 2013
East View Cartographic, Inc and Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Honduras)2013This polygon shapefile contains statistics on Honduras' national registry of persons. The census information was collected by the Instituto Naciona...
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