Remaking Urban Citizenship

Organizations, Institutions, and the Right to the City

Andrew M. Greeley, Michael Peter Smith

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781138531796
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351493598
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Peace & Global Development
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Due to heightened global migration and transnational mobility, many residents of the world's cities lack national citizenship in the places to which they have moved for work, refuge, or retirement. The disjuncture between citizenship and daily life has led to devolution of claims from national to urban space. Within nation-states characterized by structured inequalities, citizens have not reduced their social differences. This leads increasingly to calls for greater direct involvement of marginalized classes in reshaping the institutions and spaces directly affecting their lives.These concerns—cities without citizenship and people without political power—inform the agendas of organizations that seek to restructure urban citizenship in more democratic directions. Remaking Urban Citizenship focuses on the uses and limits of such political organizations and coalitions, shows the various ways they pursue expanded rights within the city, and describes the institutional changes necessary to empower global migrants and popular classes as urban citizens.Offering individual or comparative case studies of cities in the United States, Europe, and China, contributions to this volume describe the development of actual practices of organizations working to reinvigorate citizenship at the urban scale. Collectively, they locate institutional forms that help migrants lay claim to their cities, show how migrants can become politically empowered, and identify how they can expand their rights or find other ways to belong.

Index

A

absentee voting, 159, 161

ACB. See Amsterdam Center for Foreigners

ACLU. See American Civil Liberties Union

activism, 13, 101–102. See also social movements

Afghanistan, 67

African Americans, 111, 209–211, 213

Algeria, 59–74

Algerian National Liberation Front, 62

Alianza Latinoamericana por los Derechos de los Inmigrantes. See Latin American Alliance for Immigrant Rights

aliens, making in city, 43

All China Women’s Federation, 104

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 59, 75n 12

American Community Survey, 127n 2

Ammiano, Tom, 144, 146

Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Het Oosten, 85

housing corporations, 85–88

“outsiders” and land use struggles, 7

religious rights and urban planning, 83–88, 90

urban basis of immigrant rights, 79–96

Wester Church, 85

Wester Mosque, 84–88

Amsterdam Center for Foreigners (ACB), 85–87

Amsterdam School, 85

Ancient Order of Hibernians, 136

Andrews, K. T., 120

Anglophone residents, 196

Appadurai, Arjun, 41

Arendt, Hannah, 41

Aristotle, 16, 17, 19, 20, 31n 4

Arizona, SB 1070, 25, 68, 75n 14, 114, 135, 147n 1

Arpaio, Joe, 68

Asian Community Center (San Francisco, California), 143

Asian immigrants, 109, 111, 136, 139, 145

Asian Law Caucus (San Francisco, California), 145

Asian Perinatal Advocates (San Francisco, California), 141

Assisted Voluntary Return Program (AVRP), 26

Athenian citizenship, 16–17

Australia, 23

AV R P. See Assisted Voluntary Return Program

B

BANCOLDEX. See Colombian Bank for the Promotion of Entrepreneurship and Foreign Trade

banking industry, 159–160

banlieues, 74n 2

Barcelona, Spain

education, 28

immigrant organizations, 57–78

migrant population...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• I. CONCEIVING AND LOCATING CITIZENSHIP
• II. THE RIGHT TO THE CITY: POLITICAL PROJECT AND URBAN CHARACTERISTIC
• III. ORGANIZING THE RIGHT TO THE CITY: ORGANIZATIONS, CITIZENSHIP, AND THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF BELONGING
• IV. POLITICAL PRACTICE AND URBAN CITIZENSHIP: ALTERNATIVE MODES OF POLITICAL EMPOWERMENT
• Contributors
• Index