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Mobilizing in Borderline Citizenship Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Undocumented Migrants’ Collective Actions

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  • Pierre Monforte

    (University of Montréal, Montréal, Canada, pierre.monforte@umontreal.ca)

  • Pascale Dufour

    (University of Montréal, Montréal, Canada, pascale.dufour@umontreal.ca)

Abstract

This article seeks to explain how and why groups and networks of undocumented migrants mobilizing in Berlin, Montréal, and Paris since the beginning of the 2000s construct different types of claims. The authors explore the relationship between undocumented migrants and state authorities at the local level through the concept of the citizenship regime and its specific application to undocumented migrants (which they describe as the “borderline citizenship regime†). Despite their common formal exclusion from citizenship, nonstatus migrants experience different degrees and forms of exclusion in their daily lives, in terms of access to certain rights and services, recognition, and belonging within the state (whether through formally or nonformally recognized means). As a result, they have an opportunity to create different, specific forms of leeway in the society in which they live. The concurrence of these different degrees of exclusion and different forms of leeway defines specific conditions of mobilization. The authors demonstrate how the content of their claims is influenced by these conditions of mobilization.

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  • Pierre Monforte & Pascale Dufour, 2011. "Mobilizing in Borderline Citizenship Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Undocumented Migrants’ Collective Actions," Politics & Society, , vol. 39(2), pages 203-232, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:polsoc:v:39:y:2011:i:2:p:203-232
    DOI: 10.1177/0032329211405436
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    1. Lu, Peng & Nie, Shizhao, 2019. "The strength distribution and combined duration prediction of online collective actions: Big data analysis and BP neural networks," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 535(C).
    2. Thomas Swerts, 2017. "Creating Space For Citizenship: The Liminal Politics of Undocumented Activism," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 41(3), pages 379-395, May.
    3. Lu, Peng & Yao, Qi & Lu, Pengfei, 2019. "Two-stage predictions of evolutionary dynamics during the rumor dissemination," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 517(C), pages 349-369.

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