We are all migrants : political action and the ubiquitous condition of migrant-hood / Gregory Feldman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feldman, Gregory, 1969- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political alienation.

Political participation.

Political psychology.

Power (Social sciences).

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (136 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford Briefs, an imprint of Stanford University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Now more than ever, questions of citizenship, migration, and political action dominate public debate. In this powerful and polemical book, Gregory Feldman argues that We Are All Migrants. By challenging the division between those considered ""citizens"" and ""migrants,"" Feldman shows that both subjects confront disempowerment, uncertainty, and atomization inseparable from the rise of mass society, the isolation of the laboring individual, and the global proliferation of rationalized practices of security and production. Yet, this very atomization-the ubiquitous condition of migrant-hood-pushe

Contents:

Preface : migrations without migrants and migrants without migrations

Introduction : the presence of migrant-hood and the absence of politics

Atomization : the ubiquitous condition of migrant-hood

Activity : atomization through connection

Action : the presence of politics and the absence of migrant-hood.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780804795883

0804795886

OCLC:

1224277961