November 1998
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November 1998
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January 1998
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... As a result of the growing disjuncture between the presence in cities of large numbers of non-citizen immigrants and their exclusion from formal citizenship and many forms of political participation, the concept of "urban citizenship" gained popularity in the 1990s among scholars theorizing how, in an age of intense globalization, cities can provide alternative sites for the societal membership of international migrants (e.g., Holston and Appadurai 1999). Urban citizenship scholars, who include anthropologists, sociologists, and political scientists, often approach citizenship as a bottom-up process where immigrants and local activists use community organizing to expand membership rights and benefits for non-citizens and other precarious immigrants in health care and public education (Rocco 1999), employment (Pincetl 1994), and political mobilization and voting (Hayduk 2006;Varsanyi 2006). ...
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Immigrants and urban politics and policy
January 1998
... Scholarly literature has significantly documented the practical forms of incorporation in the urban space, particularly regarding vulnerable groups or those with meager economic and social resources (Balbo, 2005;Holston & Appadurai, 1999;Varsanyi, 2006;Waldinger, 1989). Beyond the observation that the migrant presence is now a significant component of urban growth and socio-economic changes in cities (Fonseca, 2008;UN Habitat, 2011), the debate over impoverished foreign populations' access to a place in cities has provided elements from diverse perspectives, whether focused on urban transformation, the nature of migratory dynamics or-albeit more rarely-the intersection of the two (Agier, 2016;Glick Schiller & Çaglar, 2011;Nicholls & Uitermark, 2016). ...
November 1998