POG 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Contrive, Nationstates, Informal Sector

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POG 320
• Professor: Sadif Arat- Koc

Document Summary

Implications of non-citizenship the status and conditions of migrants. Lecture outline: citizenship as an exclusionary category, contradictions between globalization and ongoing significance of citizenship, citizenship as "a form of capital" and a mechanism of distinction between migrant and. Significance of citizenship in an unequal world: birthright citizenship as inherited property. Implications of non-citizenship for temporary migrant workers in canada. Paradox of citizenship: as both inclusionary and exclusionary: citizenship is a notion, a category; involves a number of principles and number of aspirations that are both inclusionary and exclusionary at the same time. Inclusionary of citizenship = principles of citizenship involve promises about delivery of certain universal principles, such as universal freedoms and rights as well as universal dignity to everyone. In this sense, citizenship is about universal principles. Exclusionary of citizenship = the status, rights, freedoms, associated with citizenship is by. Only applicable to those who are formal and legal citizens of a specific state.