Elusive Subjects: Immigrant Recognition and Legitimation in Modern Surveillance States

ISBN-13: 9781032213200 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 124 str.

Mary McThomas

Opis

In this book, Mary McThomas examines how individuals can claim their own subjecthood while still evading the identity-forming powers of state surveillance.　

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Surveillance, State Power and Policing the "Other"  3. Colonial Objects and Systems of Control  4. Coming Out of the Shadows: Public Anxiety and the Confessional  5. The Battle for Sanctuary  6. From Surveilled Object to Rights-bearing Subject

O autorze

Mary McThomas is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. She studies theories of citizenship and migration, feminist theory, and the right to privacy.