The Paradox of Citizenship in American Politics

“This remarkable book does the unusual: it embeds its focus in a larger complex operational space. The migrant, the refugee, the citizen, all emerge from that larger context. The focus is not the usual detailed examination of the subject herself, but that larger world of wars, grabs, contestations, and, importantly, the claimers and resisters.”— Saskia Sassen , Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, USA  This thought-provoking book begins by looking at the incredible complexities of “