Ambiguous Citizenship in an Age of Global Migration
Author(s)
Ní Mhurchú, Aoileann
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Number
101083Language
EnglishAbstract
Many people see citizenship in a globalised world in terms of binaries: inclusion/exclusion, past/present, particularism/universalism. Aoileann Ní Mhurchú points out the limitations of these positions and argues that we need to be able to take into account the people who get caught between these traditional categories. Using critical resources found in poststructural, psychoanalytic and postcolonial thought, Ní Mhurchú thinks in new ways about citizenship, drawing on a range of thinkers including Kristeva, Bhabha and Foucault. Taking a distinctive theoretical approach, she shows how citizenship is being reconfigured beyond these categories.
Keywords
Political Science; Migration; Immigration; Social theory; Politics; Ireland; Irish nationality law; Julia Kristeva; Jus soli; Nation state; Sovereignty; Statism; Subjectivity; Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution of IrelandDOI
10.3366/edinburgh/9780748692774.001.0001ISBN
9780748692781;9780748692798OCN
919002843Publisher
Edinburgh University PressPublisher website
https://www.euppublishing.com/Publication date and place
2014-07-15Classification
Migration, immigration and emigration
Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples