Citizenship

The concept of nationalism conjures up feelings of belonging and allegiance, togetherness and protective boundaries, but what of alienation and xenophobia, immigration and asylum? How do we gauge social and political conflict in an age of national and transnational allegiances and identities? This special issue of WSQ questions what it means to be a citizen in a world haunted by terrorism, racial tension, and gender and class exclusion.

Table of Contents

Editors’ Note
Victoria Pitts-Taylor and Talia Schaffer

Introduction:
Terri Gordon-Zolov and Robin Rogers

PART I. MIGRATIONS

Documenting Three Gorges Migrants: Gendered Voices of (Dis)placement and Citizenship in Rediscovering the Yangtze River and Bingai
Daisy Yan Du

Morning Cloud, Evening Rain
Wang Ping

Bare Life, Interstices, and the Third Space of Citizenship
Charles Lee

It May Be the Chance of Your Life
Ziva Flamhaft

Transnational Subcontracting, Indian IT Workers, and the U.S. Visa “Regime”
Payal Banerjee

PART II. INTERVENTIONS

From Palm Beach Florida
Gray Jacobik

Motivated by Change: Political Activism of Young Women in the 2008 Presidential Campaign
Jane Booth-Tobin and Hahrie Han

Green Card Meal
Christine Hamm

A Queer State of Affairs: Sexual Citizenship and the Pursuit of Relationship Recognition Policies in Australia and the United States
Mary Bernstein and Nancy A. Naples

To Citizens who Banned Same-Sex Marriage
Erika Mueller

PART III. VIOLATIONS

Constructing an Imperfect Citizen-Subject: Globalization, National ‘Security’ and Violence Against South Asian Women
Sharmila Lodhia

Cargo Culture: Literature in an Age of Mass Displacement
Ashley Dawson

La Operación
Meredith Cornett

PART IV. ALIENATIONS

Illegal Birth and the Dilemma of Color, Culture, and Citizenship in Malaysia
ChorSwang Ngin

Menu
C. A. Lux

Reimagining Citizenship through Bilingualism: The Migrant Bilingual Child in Helena Maria Viramontes’ Under the Feet of Jesus
Jeehyun Lim

Having Been an Accomplice: A Letter
Laura Cronk

A Citizen Queen
Laura Cronk

PART V. ON VULNERABILITY

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, and… Vulnerability
Julia Kristeva

PART VI. CITIZENSHIP FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

A Conversation with Seyla Benhabib and Judith Resnik
Terri Gordon-Zolov

PART VII. CLASSICS REVISITED: Ruth Lister’s Citizenship: Feminist Perspectives (Second Edition)

Feminist Citizenship: Activating Politics and Theory
Umut Erel

Ruth Lister: Citizenship in Theory and in Practice
Alexandra Dobrowolsky

The “Private” Politics in Caregiving: Reflections on Ruth Lister’s
Citizenship: Feminist Perspectives
Paul Kershaw

Personal Response to Citizenship: Feminist Perspectives
Lucía M. Suárez

Response
Ruth Lister

PART VIII. REVIEWS

Citizenship and the Immigrant Body
Nerissa S. Balce
Lynn Fujiwara, Mothers Without Citizenship: Asian Immigrant Families and the Consequences of Welfare Reform
Sarah E. Chinn, Inventing Modern Adolescence: The Children of Immigrants in Turn-of-the-Century America
Grace Cho, Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War

Citizenship and the Nation-State
Elena Vesselinov
John Richard Bowen, Why the French Don’t Like Headscarves: Islam, the State, and Public Space
Joyce P. Kaufman and Kristen P. Williams, Women, the State, and War: A Comparative Perspective on Citizenship and Nationalism
Haldun Gülalp, Citizenship and Ethnic Conflict: Challenging the Nation-State

Citizenship and Human Rights
Suzanne Strickland
Sigrun Norderval and Gard A. Andreassen, Dishonored
Eva Mulvad and Anja Al-Erhayem, Enemies of Happiness
Larry Rich and Gayla Jamison, Lives for Sale: A Documentary on Immigration and Human Trafficking