Us and Them?: The Dangerous Politics of Immigration Controls

by Bridget Anderson

Us and Them? explores the distinction between migrant and citizen through using the concept of 'the community of value'. The community of value is comprised of Good Citizens and is defined from outside by the Non-Citizen and from the inside by the Failed Citizen, that is figures like the benefit scrounger, the criminal, the teenage mother etc. While Failed Citizens and Non-Citizens are often strongly differentiated, the book argues that it is analytically...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199691592
• ISBN13: 9780199691593
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"