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Overview"In this groundbreaking work, Kamal Sadiq reveals that most of the world's illegal immigrants are not migrating directly to the US, but to countries in the vast developing world. And when they arrive in countries like India and Malaysia--which are often governed by weak and erratic bureaucracies--they are able to obtain citizenship papers fairly easily. Sadiq introduces ""documentary citizenship"" to explain how paperwork--often falsely obtained--confers citizenship on illegal immigrants. Once immigrants obtain documents, Sadiq writes, it is a relatively simple matter for, say, an Afghan migrant with Pakistani papers to pass himself off as a Pakistani citizen both in Pakistan and abroad. Across the globe, there are literally tens of millions of such illegal immigrants who have assumed the guise of ""citizens."" Who, then, is really a citizen? And what does citizenship mean for most of the world's peoples? Rendered in vivid detail, Paper Citizens not only shows how illegal immigrants acquire false papers, but also sheds light on the consequences this will have for global security in the post 9/11 world." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kamal Sadiq (Assistant Professor of Political Science, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of California, Irvine)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 22.90cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 15.20cm Weight: 0.431kg ISBN: 9780199764631ISBN 10: 0199764638 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 28 October 2010 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsAcknowlegements List of Acronyms A Paradox: Illegal Immigrants as Citizens Part I. The Process 1. Searching for Illegal Immigrants 2. Networks of Complicity 3. Blurred Membership 4. Documentary Citizenship Part II. The Proof 5. Voters across Borders 6. Tough Ain't Enough 7. After Citizenship Notes Bibliography IndexReviews<br> Paper Citizens is truly pathbreaking. It is probably the most impressive and important book ever written about illegal immigration within the developing world-a subject that tends to be glossed over in an immigration debate too narrowly preoccupied with population flows from poor to rich countries. More broadly, this book is one of the finest examples of how researchers can measure the unmeasurable and make the invisible world more visible. <br>-Peter Andreas, Brown University <br> In these pages you will find the public policy dilemmas and the human tragedies, the conceptual confusion and the gripping stories that show how urgent it is to think more clearly about how foreigners becomes citizens. Anyone who cares about immigration must read Kamal Sadiq's excellent book. --Moises Naim, Editor-in-Chief, Foreign Policy, and author of Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats Are Hijacking the Global Economy<br> In Paper Citizens, Kamal Sadiq brings startling new empirical <br> Paper Citizens is truly pathbreaking. It is probably the most impressive and important book ever written about illegal immigration within the developing world-a subject that tends to be glossed over in an immigration debate too narrowly preoccupied with population flows from poor to rich countries. More broadly, this book is one of the finest examples of how researchers can measure the unmeasurable and make the invisible world more visible. <br>-Peter Andreas, Brown University <br><p><br> In these pages you will find the public policy dilemmas and the human tragedies, the conceptual confusion and the gripping stories that show how urgent it is to think more clearly about how foreigners becomes citizens. Anyone who cares about immigration must read Kamal Sadiq's excellent book. --Mois?'s Na m, Editor-in-Chief, Foreign Policy, and author of Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats Are Hijacking the Global Economy<p><br> In Paper Citizens, Kamal Sadiq brings startling new em Author InformationKamal Sadiq is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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