Making and Unmaking Global Citizenship

Vicki Squire is Professor of International Politics in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick.

• Acknowledgements Introduction: The Politics of Precarious Migration: Citizenship, Claims and Global PoliticsPart I: Refusals1. Global Citizenship in the Making? Claims to Rights, Belonging and Accountability2. Claims Making in Precarity: Diverse Types and Forms of ClaimsPart II: Disruptions3. Making Claims Through Things: Dehumanisation and Dispossession4. Claiming Data Through Frictions: Coloniality and Epistemic ViolencePART III: Alternatives5. Enacting Mutual Support: The ‘Hostile Environment’ and Ambient Racism6. Building Abolitionist Bridges: Intimate Politics and Non-Reformist ReformsConclusion: The Making and Unmaking of Global Citizenship: Horizons of Research and PoliticsBibliographyAppendix: List of claims represented in FiguresNotesIndex

In this important book, Vicki Squire upends our understanding of the international by asking who and what constitutes the political. Decentring states and citizens, Squire provides an alternate account of political subjectivity that is grounded in the lived experience of migrants, their struggles but also their refusals, resistance, and demands for a politics otherwise.