Colonial Citizenship and Everyday Transnationalism: An Immigrant's Story

ISBN-13: 9781032240596 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 148 str.

Alexandria Innes

Opis

This book uncovers the contradictions and convergences of racism, decolonisation, migration, and living international relations that were shaped by the shift from colonialism to postcolonialism and from nationalism to transnationalism between the 1950s and the present.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: Colonial Migration; Becoming Transnational  Excerpt 1: The stock I come from  1. The Global and Local Politics of Everyday Life in 1950s Famagusta  Excerpt 2: Improvise to survive  2. Colonial Subjectivity, Colonial Immigration, and National Identity  Excerpt 3: Going down the pits  3. Ontological Security, Affective Environments and the Future  Part II: Transnational Family Life  4. Theorising the Transnational Family in International Relations  5. Transnational Citizenship: From Wallsend to Paphos  Conclusion  Post Script

O autorze

Alexandria J. Innes is currently a Senior Lecturer of International Relations at the University of East Anglia, having received her PhD in 2011 from the University of Kansas. She returned to the UK in 2013 after eight years of living in the USA. Alexandria grew up in the North East of England, spending lengthy summers in the care of her grandparents in Paphos, Cyprus, and this book represents a deeply personal project. This is her second book exploring themes of migration using experiential and ethnographic research methods. Her research focus is at the intersection of security studies and migration studies with an interest in gender and security, and in postcolonial citizenship and security. Alexandria has published research in various academic outlets, including International Political Sociology, Security Dialogue, Critical Studies on Terrorism, Geopolitics and International Relations. She has also contributed to public debate on European migration via various media outlets including the BBC, National Public Radio in the US, and at Politics.co.uk. Her current project in progress continues her focus on migration journeys, examining the convergences and overlaps among human trafficking, human smuggling, and the undocumented crossing of borders by people seeking asylum.