Migration, Citizenship and Social Rights

Dear Colleagues,

We invite submissions for a Special Issue on Migration, Citizenship and Social Rights. Social rights, such as the rights to healthcare, food, housing, education and work are generally regarded as fundamental in democratic societies. However, international crackdowns on immigration and immigrants have increasingly restricted access to social rights based on immigration status. For example, asylum seekers are often regarded with suspicion and positioned as burdens lacking legitimate claims to residence or benefits while their applications are processed. This Special Issue aims to explore historical and contemporary issues surrounding the benefits conferred by both citizenship and liminal immigration statuses, as well as those granted and denied to undocumented immigrants. Specifically, we invite submissions that address how social rights are granted or denied at different points in time, and across various legal, institutional and geographic contexts.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but not limited to) the following:

• National and transnational legal frameworks impacting migrants’ access to social rights;
• The influence of political narratives on immigrants’ access to social rights and social incorporation;
• Shifting conceptions of citizenship during times of heightened political attention to international migration;
• Influences of neoliberalism, isolationism and populism on immigrants’ access to resources and social rights;
• The intersection of race, gender and nationality and immigrants’ access to social rights;
• Historical and comparative perspectives on immigrants’ access to social rights without citizenship;
• Asylum seekers and their social rights while awaiting asylum decisions;
• Variable access to social rights at different moments in the life course for noncitizens;
• Institutional attachments and access to social rights for immigrants;
• Intergenerational impacts of limited social rights in mixed-status families.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Alexis M. Silver
Dr. Kara Cebulko
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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• migration
• social rights
• citizenship
• asylum-seekers
• immigration policies