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Record Nr.

UNINA9910860896903321

Autore

Bonet Sally Wesley

Titolo

Meaningless Citizenship : Iraqi Refugees and the Welfare State

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2022

©2022

ISBN

1-4529-6850-0

1-4529-6851-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 pages)

Disciplina

305.9/06914089927567073

Soggetti

Welfare state

Refugees

Neoliberalism

Iraqis - Social conditions

Imperialism

Citizenship

Citizenship - United States

Neoliberalism - United States

Welfare state - United States

Iraqis - United States - Social conditions

Refugees - United States

Refugees - Iraq

United States

Iraq

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : The Mirage of Refuge -- Resettlement : The Creation of Self-Sufficient Subjects -- Welfare : The Fashioning of (Non-)Citizens -- Public Education : Locked Out of the Right to Have Rights -- Young Adult Education : The Shaping of Laboring Citizens -- Healthcare : The Debilitation of Iraqi Bodies across Borders -- Conclusion : Meaningless Citizenship.

Sommario/riassunto

"Meaningless Citizenship traces the costs of America's long-term



military involvement around the world by following the forced displacement of Iraqi families. Sally Wesley Bonet unveils how Iraqis are doubly displaced: first by the machinery of American imperialism in their native countries and then through a more pernicious war occurring on U.S. soil-the dismantling of the welfare state"--