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Aptekar Sofya <1979-> |
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The road to citizenship : what naturalization means for immigrants and the United States / / Sofya Aptekar |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey ; ; London, [England] : , : Rutgers University Press, , 2015 |
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1 online resource (190 p.) |
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Citizenship - United States |
Naturalization - United States |
Immigrants - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Roads to Citizenship -- 2. Citizenship and Inequality -- 3. Voices of Immigrants -- 4. Citizenship Ceremonies -- 5. Welcoming and Defining -- 6. Naturalization in Theory and Practice -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the author |
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Between 2000 and 2011, eight million immigrants became American citizens. In naturalization ceremonies large and small these new Americans pledged an oath of allegiance to the United States, gaining the right to vote, serve on juries, and hold political office; access to certain jobs; and the legal rights of full citizens. In The Road to Citizenship, Sofya Aptekar analyzes what the process of becoming a citizen means for these newly minted Americans and what it means for the United States as a whole. Examining the evolution of the discursive role of immigrants in American society from potential traitors to morally superior "supercitizens," Aptekar's in-depth research uncovers considerable contradictions with the way naturalization works today. Census data reveal that citizenship is distributed in ways that increasingly exacerbate existing class and racial inequalities, at the same time that immigrants' own understandings of naturalization defy |
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accepted stories we tell about assimilation, citizenship, and becoming American. Aptekar contends that debates about immigration must be broadened beyond the current focus on borders and documentation to include larger questions about the definition of citizenship. Aptekar's work brings into sharp relief key questions about the overall system: does the current naturalization process accurately reflect our priorities as a nation and reflect the values we wish to instill in new residents and citizens? Should barriers to full membership in the American polity be lowered? What are the implications of keeping the process the same or changing it? Using archival research, interviews, analysis of census and survey data, and participant observation of citizenship ceremonies, The Road to Citizenship demonstrates the ways in which naturalization itself reflects the larger operations of social cohesion and democracy in America. |
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UNINA9910744507703321 |
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Autore |
Mukherjee Utsa |
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Childhoods & Leisure : Cross-Cultural and Inter-Disciplinary Dialogues / / edited by Utsa Mukherjee |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023 |
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[1st ed. 2023.] |
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1 online resource (270 pages) |
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Leisure Studies in a Global Era, , 2946-3181 |
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Sociology |
Leisure |
Social groups |
Developmental psychology |
Leisure Studies |
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging |
Child and Adolescence Psychology |
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1. Introduction: When Leisure Studies met Childhood Studies, Utsa Mukherjee -- Part I Children’s Rights and Social Justice -- 2. Whose leisure is it anyway? The challenges of providing children’s leisure from a cross-cultural playwork perspective, Shelly Newstead and Qian Zheng -- 3. Play for All: Fostering Inclusive Play Spaces in India, Rajashree Srinivasan -- 4. “Social Justice” despite Sickness: Play and Leisure for Children and Young People in Hospital, Jessika Boles and Joan Turner -- Part II Social Identities and Cultural Politics -- 5: Hobby Horses: A Hobby, Sport or Pure Play? A Contemporary Plaything as Part of Girlhood Leisure Activities in Finland -- 6.Policing Pastime: Child Audiences, Cinemas and the Segregation of Leisure in South Africa -- Part III Space, Place and Meaning-Making -- 7: Children’s Participation and Leisure Possibilities in an Institutionalized Leisure Arena: The Case of Swedish School-Age Educare Centres -- 8. Children’s Meanings of Third Places for Leisure in Jakarta’s Low-Income Neighbourhoods -- 9. Negotiating Informalities of Leisure: Leisure Among Slum-Dwelling Amidst the Coronavirus Pandemic in the Philippines -- 10. Playing, Working, and Learning in Flux: Perspectives from African Post-forager Childhoods -- . |
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This edited volume brings together interdisciplinary scholarship on children’s everyday leisure from across the globe, addressing key questions around children’s agency, rights, child-adult relations, and social change. It is positioned to inaugurate a new frontier of research within leisure studies. Leisure theory has historically been adult-centric and based in the global north, and consequently, children’s lived experiences of leisure have remained marginal to theory-building exercises within leisure studies since its inception. As the call for decolonizing leisure studies grows, this book champions a cross-cultural and social justice agenda that does not privilege global north childhoods but acknowledges the multiplicity of lived childhoods across the globe and their inter-connections. By drawing attention to children’s leisure – across multiple genres such as organized leisure, sports, play, and digital leisure among others, this edited volume drives a new wave of research that speaks simultaneously to leisure studies and childhood studies and thereby advances the intellectual remit of global leisure studies. Utsa Mukherjee is a Lecturer in Education at Brunel University London. |
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