Remaking Urban Citizenship: Organizations, Institutions, and the Right to the City

by Michael P. Smith

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412846188
• ISBN13: 9781412846189
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 10.0"