Citizenship, migrant activism and the politics of movement / edit ed by Peter Nyers and Kim Rygiel. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2014. - x, 188 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. - Routledge research on the global politics of migration ; 2 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: citizenship, migrant activism, and the politics of mov ement -- Securitized migrants and postcolonial (in)difference: the poli tics of activisms among North African migrants in France / Alina Sajed -- Claiming rights, asserting belonging: contesting citizenship in the UK / Ruth Grove-White -- Ungrateful subjects? refugee protests and the logic of gratitude / Carolina Moulin -- "We are all foreigners": no bor ders as a practical political project / Bridget Anderson, Nandita Sharm a and Cynthia Wright -- Ethnography and human rights: the experience of APDHA with Nigerian sex workers in Andalucia / Estefania Acien Gonzale z -- Moments of solidarity, migrant activism and (non)citizens at globa l borders: political agency at Tanzanian refugee camps, Australian dete ntion centres and European borders / Heather Johnson -- Building a sanc tuary city: municipal migrant rights in the city of Toronto / Jean McDo nald -- Taking not waiting: space, temporality and politics in the city of sanctuary movement / Vicki Squire and Jennifer Bagelman -- Undocume nted citizens? shifting grounds of citizenship in Los Angeles / Anne Mc Nevin.

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Immigrants-- Political activity.
Immigrants-- Civil rights.
Emigration and immigration-- Political aspects.

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