Acknowledgements
List of Acronyms
Introduction: A Paradox: Illegal Immigrants As Citizens
Part 1: The Process
1: Searching for Illegal Immigrants
2: Networks of Complicity
3: Blurred Membership
4: Documentary Citizenship
Part II: The Proof
5: Voters Across Borders
6: Tough Ain't Enough
7: Bibliographyenship
Index
Kamal Sadiq is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine.
"Paper Citizens is truly pathbreaking. It is probably the most
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glossed over in an immigration debate too narrowly preoccupied with
population flows from poor to rich countries. More broadly, this
book is one of the finest examples of how researchers can measure
the unmeasurable and make the invisible world more visible."
-Peter Andreas, Brown University
"In these pages you will find the public policy dilemmas and the
human tragedies, the conceptual confusion and the gripping stories
that show how urgent it is to think more clearly about how
foreigners becomes citizens. Anyone who cares about immigration
must read Kamal Sadiq's excellent book."--Moisés Naím,
Editor-in-Chief, Foreign Policy, and author of Illicit: How
Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats Are Hijacking the Global
Economy
"In Paper Citizens, Kamal Sadiq brings startling new empirical
information and theoretical arguments to the mounting scholarly and
political debates over citizenship. He shows that in many countries
legal citizenship is far more complex and uncertain than commonly
recognized, in ways that pose major challenges for how political
governance, economic welfare, and national security should be
pursued, within and across existing states. A seminal
contribution."--Rogers M. Smith, Christopher H. Browne
Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of
Pennsylvania
"Paper Citizens has serious implications for two big public debates
in North America and Europe: illegal migration and security. With a
remarkable eye for detail, Kamal Sadiq covers material
systematically ignored by the existing scholars of citizenship and
migration. It is absolutely fascinating."--Ashutosh Varshney,
Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan, and author
of Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life
"In this impressive work, Sadiq lays bare alignments in the
migration experience easily obscured by the analytical categories
that dominate explanation in this field of research. He makes
visible the extent to which these categories are empirically rooted
in the Western experience. When one moves the lens to Asia, we
begin to understand the need for a far broader range of categories.
But perhaps even more surprising, is that he shows us that Asia's
experience
also illuminates features of the west that we have not recognized
sufficiently."--Saskia Sassen, Robert Lynd Professor of Sociology,
Columbia University and author of Territory, Authority, Rights
"Kamal Sadiq makes a major contribution to Political Science by
explaining in Paper Citizens the who, why, and how of documentary
citizenship in India, Pakistan and Malaysia. He reveals the
subterranean processes by which millions have acquired citizenship.
His analysis challenges the claims of states to comprehensive
territorial sovereignty and illuminates a neglected globalization
process."--Lloyd Rudolph, Professor of Political Science
Emeritus,
University of Chicago
"One of the best new books Ive read this year... [T]his book is
going to grab intellectual and policy attention through the next
two years, across the world."--Gautum Chikermane, The Hindustan
Times
"An impressive analysis that is historically grounded, empirically
wide-ranging, and theoretically innovative. The result is an
engaging read that sets the course for a new research agenda that
addresses immigration and citizenship in the developing world...
Sadiq's findings are both thorough and compelling... [This]
excellent book has set a high standard for scholarly research,
while pointing the way for a new research agenda."--International
Migration
Review
"Paper Citizens is an exceptionally important publication, both
theoretically and empirically,
and should become a standard reference for social scientists
working on citizenship, migration and nationalism."--Asian Journal
of Social Science
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