Recent migration politics center on who belongs as citizens.
Evidence
The political concern over transnational population movements in the past twenty years or so, in contrast if related to the economic considerations, principally has been about the composition of citizenship. … It has concerned who properly belongs in and to the society and who does not, of the constitution of the social fabric and the implications for social formation. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 141
Categorization
- XREF: Parallels the migration-as-belonging debates in contemporary public discourse. — connects to: Borders generate new hierarchies of belonging shaped by immigration control — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 31; Residence, not just descent, came to confer German citizenship. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 208
Related
- Racial categorization shapes who belongs to national collectivities (similarity 0.81)
- Global migration drives the decoupling of formal and substantial citizenship (similarity 0.81)
- Migration definitions are political constructs, not objective facts (similarity 0.80)
- Citizenship is decoupling from nation-state boundaries under globalization (similarity 0.80)
- Borders generate new hierarchies of belonging shaped by immigration control (similarity 0.80)
- Citizenship’s static territorial model excludes those who move (similarity 0.80)
- Racialization results from capitalism’s mobility need conflicting with citizenship boundaries (similarity 0.79)
- Race-based inequalities make citizenship questions urgent in heterogeneous states (similarity 0.79)
- Classic citizenship privileges settlement and frames mobility as exceptional (similarity 0.79)
- Citizenship is evolving toward multiple simultaneous levels beyond the nation-state (similarity 0.79)