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Migration and Citizenship: Rights and Exclusions

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Migration and Social Protection

Part of the book series: Rethinking International Development Series ((RID))

Abstract

The dominant idea has long been that rights were connected to nationality and citizenship, thereby granting aliens with very limited protection.

—De Guchteneire and Pécoud (2009, p. 6)

In a time of increasing migration, citizenship as a form of classification has come to assume the kind of importance once reserved for other kinds of discriminatory and exclusionary classifications of status. Distinctions in ancient times or in ante-bellum United States between free men and slaves, in French and Portuguese colonial empires between évolués or assimilados and other colonial subjects, in Nazi-occupied Europe between Aryans and Jews and Roma, or racial classifications in Apartheid South Africa, were all means of granting or denying social and political rights. Although citizenship has many other aspects, for migrants its primary significance is the extent to which it enables them to gain access to a territory and to rights within it.

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  1. Tendayi Bloom
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  1. Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK

    Rachel Sabates-Wheeler (Research Fellow Centre for Social Protection) (Research Fellow Centre for Social Protection)

  2. Department of Arts and Human Sciences, London South Bank University, UK

    Rayah Feldman (Honorary Visiting Research Fellow) (Honorary Visiting Research Fellow)

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Bloom, T., Feldman, R. (2011). Migration and Citizenship: Rights and Exclusions. In: Sabates-Wheeler, R., Feldman, R. (eds) Migration and Social Protection. Rethinking International Development Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230306554_2

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