Improvising "Nonexistent Rights": iImmigrants, ethnic restaurants, and corporeal citizenship in Suburban California
Abstract: Building on Henri Lefebvre's radical concept of "right to the city", contemporary literatures on urban citizenship critically shift the locus of citizenship from its juridical-political foundation in the sovereign state to the spatial politics of the urban inhabitants. However, while the political discourse of right to the city presents a vital vision for urban democracy in the shadow of neoliberal restructuring, its exclusive focus on democratic agency and practices can become disconnected from the everyday experiences of city life on the ground. In fact, in cities that lack longstanding/viable urban citizenship mechanisms that can deliver meaningful political participation, excluded subjects may bypass formal democratic channels to improvise their own inclusion, belonging, and rights in an informal space that the sovereign power does not recognize. Drawing on my fieldwork in the Asian restaurant industry in several multiethnic suburbs in Southern California, this article investig
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Englisch
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begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Social Inclusion ; 7 (2019) 4 ; 79-89
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Mannheim
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SSOAR - Social Science Open Access Repository
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2019
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Lee, Charles T.
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10.17645/si.v7i4.2305
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021011414375279832077
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Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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