The figure of the migrant / Thomas Nail.
| Author/creator | Nail, Thomas author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2015] |
| Description | x, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction -- Part I: Political theory of the migrant. The figure of the migrant -- Part II: Expansion by expulsion. Kinopolitics ; Centripetal force ; Centrifugal force ; Tensional force ; Elastic force I ; Elastic force II -- Part III: Figures of the migrant. Pedetic force ; The nomad ; The barbarian ; The vagabond ; The proletariat -- Part IV: Contemporary migration : Mexico-United States. Centripetal force and land grabbing ; Centrifugal force and federal enforcement ; Tensional force and illegal people ; Elastic force and neoliberalism ; Pedetic force and migrant power -- Conclusion. |
| Abstract | "This book offers a much-needed new political theory of an old phenomenon. The last decade alone has marked the highest number of migrations in recorded history. Constrained by environmental, economic, and political instability, scores of people are on the move. But other sorts of changes--from global tourism to undocumented labor--have led to the fact that to some extent, we are all becoming migrants. The migrant has become the political figure of our time. Rather than viewing migration as the exception to the rule of political fixity and citizenship, Thomas Nail reinterprets the history of political power from the perspective of the movement that defines the migrant in the first place. Applying his "kinopolitics" to several major historical conditions (territorial, political, juridical, and economic) and figures of migration (the nomad, the barbarian, the vagabond, and the proletariat), he provides fresh tools for the analysis of contemporary migration." -- Publisher's description |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version Nail, Thomas. Figure of the migrant. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2015] 9780804796682 |
| LCCN | 2015007378 |
| ISBN | 9780804796583 |
| ISBN | 9780804787178 hardcover alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 0804787174 hardcover alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 0804796580 paperback alkaline paper |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| Standard identifier# | 40025307942 |
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