Examines how the movement of people and their incorporation, marginalization, and exclusion, under epochal conditions of labour and social precarity affecting both citizens and noncitizens, have challenged older notions of citizenship and alienage.
Approaching mobility, precarity, and citizenship at once generates a critical exploration of the points of contact and friction and the potential politics of commonality between citizens and noncitizens. What does modern citizenship mean in a world of citizens, denizens, and noncitizens living under common conditions of labor and social precarity? Precarity and Belonging interrogates such binaries as citizen/noncitizen, and “legal”/“illegal” to explore the fluidity of the spectra of belonging.