It takes a bold thinker to introduce a new term into the thicket of contemporary discussions of citizenship, migration and belonging. Tendayi Bloom does this with her ambitious concept of noncitzenism. She presents noncitizenship as a unifying analytic category that describes a particular relationship between individuals and States. Her claim is that the relationship deserves attention because of its special consequences for the rights of affected individuals, irrespective of their particular type of noncitizenship. Cogently argued and lucidly written, this impressive book is both a valuable addition to the literature on one of the major political challenges of our times, and a stimulating provocation for constituencies actively engaged in contesting the many injustices it describes.
Jacqueline Bhabha, Harvard University, USA
By documenting critical social movements this book illustrates how the rights of noncitizens are being constituted as a site of political struggle. It is a brilliant book that restores political agency to noncitizens in (liberal) theory something that states resist in (illiberal) practices.
Engin Isin, Queen Mary University of London, UK
This book is a timely challenge to methodological citizenism the assumption that all political thinking has to be structured around citizenship. Against this, it poses the idea of noncitizenship, rather than non-citizenship. Drawing on a wide range of resources, it points the way forward, offering a vision of what liberal theory and practice could look like if they were to break out of the state-citizen relationship. And it stands as an urgent warning that, if they are to remain relevant to the project of social justice, then they must embrace the category of the noncitizen as an essential part of the liberal framework. It is essential reading for anybody concerned with the contradictions of national membership and global justice.
Phillip Cole, University of the West of England, UK.
Noncitizenism
Noncitizens have always been present in liberal political philosophy. Often hard to situate within traditional frameworks that prioritise citizenship, noncitizens can appear voiceless and rightsless, which has implications for efforts towards global justice and justice in migration. This book proposes an alternative.
Noncitizenism identifies an analytical category of noncitizenship. While maintaining the importance of citizenship, noncitizenship is another form of special individual-State relationship. It operates far from a State, at its borders, and within its territory, providing a tool for examining the continuity between sites of engagement and the literatures, questions and conclusions relating to them. The book argues that an accurate liberal theoretical framework, and one which can address contemporary challenges, must acknowledge the political relationship of noncitizenship between individuals and States.
This book is for students and scholars of political philosophy and for those interested in noncitizenship and how it can inform the response of liberal theory, citizenship, global justice, migration studies, political theory and policy work.
Tendayi Bloom is Lecturer in Politics and International Studies at The Open University, UK.
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Throughout the almost nine years I have spent working on this book, many wonderful people have given generous support, guidance and insight. This acknowledgements section is my inadequate token of thanks to them.
The kernel for this project arose from my doctoral work at, and with funding from, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) School of Law from 2008 to 2012, where the inclusive and dynamic academic community and the fantastic supervision of Richard Ashcroft made it a great place to begin the research. I am also grateful for the encouragement of Jonathan Glover and the additional support particularly from Prakash Shah and Kate Malleson, and the QMUL PhD community, the Centre for the Study of Migration at QMUL and the LSE migration studies graduate reading group. Working at the UNU Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility in Spain from 2012 to 2015 provided exciting opportunities for engagement in political processes and colleagues with whom to discuss the questions presented here: Megha Amrith, Valeria Bello, Tatiana Diniz, Anna Franzil, Parvati Nair, Janina Pescinski, Regina Salanova and Francesco Vacchiano.
