Search Results for community citizenship

... , returnees, and post-1990s South Asian entrepreneurs and migrants remake their livelihoods and homes in urban Uganda. Postcolonial and transnational Ugandan state projects of “Asian” racialization and citizenship shape the ways that contemporary Asian (African Asian and new South Asian) community leaders...

... In chapter 10, Margaret D. Stock explores the historical and practical application of “birthright citizenship” and its legal foundation in the Fourteenth Amendment. She discusses the potential, unanticipated consequences of changing America’s long-standing constitutional birthright citizenship...

... community citizenship race, and culture social integration and social distance Mabira Forest anti-Asian violence anti-Asian populism ...

... integration, community, and culture, as transnational Ugandan Asian stayees , returnees, and post-1990s South Asian entrepreneurs and migrants remake their livelihoods and homes in urban Uganda. Postcolonial and transnational Ugandan state projects of “Asian” racialization and citizenship shape the ways...

... In chapter 2, Jacqueline Bhabha provides a case study of the flawed reach of citizenship benefits in the European Union, focusing on Europe’s Roma population, a community long subject to pervasive discrimination and other rights violations. Roma citizenship deficits are described by reference...

... Indigenous women improvise forms of citizenship in the exiguous spaces of postcolonial intersectional hierarchies and become vocal critics of content-less citizenship. The chapter documents indigenous women’s quotidian practices through which they enact citizenship through development, welfare...

... This chapter explores new formations of authority, citizenship, and care that emerged to deal with breakdown in the city’s property system. It analyzes competing views for how de facto public lands should be distributed and used. As the city struggled to manage all the property to which it held...

... provides a case study of the flawed reach of citizenship benefits in the European Union, focusing on Europe’s Roma population, a community long subject to pervasive discrimination and other rights violations. Roma citizenship deficits are described by reference to three types of citizenship—national...

... as avenues for political engagement in both Puerto Rico and the United States. The section “Puerto Ricans, Citizenship, and Social Welfare” explores how, since granting US citizenship in Puerto Rico in 1917, Puerto Ricans have made political claims to social rights through organizing for full coverage under...

... unconscious, the author stresses the photographic archive’s role as a negative of empire. By charting the ways that the “coolie,” or indentured laborer, comes in and out of focus as a member of the imperial community, Moser suggests that the very images used to constitute imperial citizenship might also...

..., depicted through ethnographic narratives constructed from interview transcripts and field notes. The chapter argues the importance of highlighting ambivalence and refusal as community leaders encounter discourses of idealized civic participation. citizenship gender participatory budgeting ...

... Advancing the concept abjectivity, the authors interrogate how the biopolitics of citizenship and governmentality—surveillance, immigration documents, employment forms, birth certificates, tax forms, drivers’ licenses, credit card applications, bank accounts, medical insurance, car insurance...

... Chapter 7 elucidates the contradictory meanings of citizenship in Ngara during the 1970s and early 1980s, the period of ujamaa (forced villagization) and Rwandan refugee naturalization in Tanzania. Located at the margins of an increasingly centralized bureaucracy, Ngarans engaged in illegal...

... the informational worlds of African communities. In this twilight moment, administrators hoped to use broadcasting to shape the social and political worlds available to Africans by generating “intermediate” subjects—beyond “tribe” but before “citizenship.” Listeners seized on this opportunity, conjuring up...

... social reproduction of Kuwaiti families, and through their remittances, the everyday provisioning of the households and communities they have migrated from. This chapter underscores how domestic workers’ “temporariness” is produced amidst—and belied by—past and present transnational connections that knit...

... Activists first drew attention to CKDnt through a quasi-legal transnational corporate grievance mechanism underwritten by the World Bank’s Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO). The CAO grievance mechanism encourages mediation over litigation. It invites companies to meet community members...

... This chapter examines how grassroots community leaders in Porto Alegre, Brazil, made sense of two civic participation initiatives linked to their city’s status as a “leftist utopia”—the World Social Forum and the Participatory Budget—during the final years of municipal government under...

... and generation within local communities. For their part, shack dwellers persisted in struggling for urban citizenship: they honed courtroom tactics, resisted evictions and deportations, and engaged in routine activities that ranged from the building of shanties and makeshift schools and churches to the formation...