Citizenship - Social Policy Books

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1. Migrants, Borders and Global Capitalism

   West African Labour Mobility and EU Borders

   By Hannah Cross

   Series: Routledge Research on the Global Politics of Migration

   People from West Africa are risking their lives and surrendering their citizenship rights to enter exploitative labour markets in Europe. This book offers an explanation for this phenomenon that is based on close analysis of the contradictory economic and political agendas that create and constrain...

   Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
2. Risk

   Second Edition

   By Deborah Lupton

   Series: Key Ideas

   Risk (second edition) is a fully revised and expanded update of a highly-cited, influential and well-known book. It reviews the three major approaches to risk in social and cultural theory, devoting a chapter to each one. These approaches were first identified and described by Deborah Lupton in the...

   Published April 2nd 2013 by Routledge
3. Accounting for Ethnic and Racial Diversity

   The Challenge of Enumeration

   Edited by Patrick Simon, Victor Piché

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   By the end of the 20th century, the ethnic question had resurfaced in public debate. Every country had been affected by what is commonly known as cultural pluralism, as a result of conflicts interpreted from an ethnic perspective, for instance, in the Balkans and central Africa; nationalist...

   Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge
4. Youth Citizenship and the Politics of Belonging

   Edited by Sharlene Swartz, Madeleine Arnot

   Around the world today, young people are being called upon to develop civic competence and carry the burden of forging a political future in the midst of impoverishment, exclusion and inequality. In societies that have experienced civil war, military occupation, mass immigration of displaced people...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
5. Solidarity in Individualized Societies

   Recognition, Justice and Good Judgement

   By Søren Juul

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   In today’s individualized, culturally diverse and globalized society, many sociologists have concluded that the conceptualizations developed by classical sociology are no longer sufficient to promote social cohesion. So what kind of solidarity can achieve this? Engaging with recent thought in...

   Published January 30th 2013 by Routledge
6. Irregular Migrants

   Policy, Politics, Motives and Everyday Lives

   Edited by Alice Bloch, Milena Chimienti

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   A new era of international migration has been accompanied by increasingly restrictive immigration controls to manage migration to more developed countries. The consequence has been fewer routes to enter and/or stay in countries in a regularised way and as a result, an increase in the...

   Published June 27th 2012 by Routledge
7. Linking Integration and Residential Segregation

   Edited by Gideon Bolt, A. Sule Özüekren, Deborah Phillips

   Policy-makers tend to view the residential segregation of minority ethnic groups in a negative light as it is seen as an obstacle to their integration. In the literature on neighbourhood effects, the residential concentration of minorities is seen as a major impediment to their social mobility and...

   Published June 26th 2012 by Routledge
8. Emotions and Human Mobility

   Ethnographies of Movement

   Edited by Maruška Svašek

   This book provides insights into the emotional dimensions of human mobility. Drawing on findings and theoretical discussions in anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, philosophy, linguistics, migration studies, human geography and political science, the authors offer interdisciplinary...

   Published June 20th 2012 by Routledge
9. Refugee Women

   Beyond Gender versus Culture

   By Leah Bassel

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Debates over the headscarf and niqab, so-called ‘sharia-tribunals’, Female Genital Operations and forced marriages have raged in Europe and North America in recent years, raising the question – does accommodating Islam violate women’s rights? The book takes issue with the terms of this debate. It...

   Published June 17th 2012 by Routledge
10. Population Policy and Reproduction in Singapore

    Making Future Citizens

    By Shirley Hsiao-Li Sun

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

    This book examines the relationship between population policies and individual reproductive decisions in low-fertility contexts. Using the case study of Singapore, it demonstrates that the effectiveness of population policy is a function of competing notions of citizenship, and the gap between...

    Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge