Mary McThomas (University of California, Irvine, USA)

Elusive Subjects

Immigrant Recognition and Legitimation in Modern Surveillance States

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 132
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 206g
• ISBN-13: 9781032213200
• ISBN-10: 1032213205
• Artikelnr.: 63084223

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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