Annotated Bibliography on Citizenship and Social Exclusion

This annotated bibliography explores the concept of citizenship and its relation to social exclusion. It includes three books that examine the rights of immigrants and the marginalized poor, and the limitations of citizenship as an exclusion principle.

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Moosa-Mitha, Mehmoona. Reconfiguring citizenship: Social exclusion and diversity within
inclusive citizenship practices. Routledge, 2016.
The author from the University of Victoria is a reputed social activist who has worked
with welfare organizations. She talks about citizenship and draws a relation with human and
economic rights. Citizenship is directly linked to identity and the author claims that social
exclusion has always been an intrinsic part of citizenship and the rights attached to outsiders can
be seen in theory and not in practice. The book is a worldwide recognized and acknowledged
piece which makes a very pertinent point about the role of government in ensuring that the rights
of outsiders are upheld.
The strength of the book lies in questioning citizenship as an inherent governmental
concept and examines human rights, social justice in the light of exclusion theory. The question
is whether exclusion can be seen in the light of social exclusion based on gender, class, ethnicity,
or not. The importance of this book lies in understanding that citizenship is an exclusive
principle which does not recognize human rights. The implication of the book to the chosen topic
elaborately explains the plight of outsiders in wanting to settle in a foreign land. The weakness of
the book is in not wanting to explore the discriminations that a human being feels while settling
in a foreign territory and how governmental and judicial help can better the situation by
providing the author’s knowledge and recommendation.
Blitz, Brad K., ed. Migration and freedom: mobility, citizenship and exclusion. Edward Elgar
Publishing, 2014.
Author talks about 214 million international migrants and tries to understand the rights of
these immigrants and the disabilities they face. Not only facing governmental control while

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settling down in a new environment, these immigrants also face administrative hindrance in
terms of visa, property tax, residency, employment. The author being the professor of
international politics has conducted more than 170 interviews to account the live and personal
accounts of the “outsiders” or “newcomers”
The strength of the book can be understood from the research the author has conducted
on welfare activists and immigrants who have provided their real life stories related to
citizenship and mobility The idea of the book is to understand citizenship as an external concept
that does not recognize the rights of people coming to settle in a new land. The premise of the
book hovers around freedom of movement and how the external nature of citizenship constraints
the freedom to movement. The book researching on people of Slovenia, Russia, Spain have
concluded that the discrimination faced by immigrants create a new kind of citizenship who are
treated differently because citizenship is considered an exclusion principle. The book answers
the concept of citizenship as an exclusion principle but the weakness lies in not categorizing the
newly formed citizen groups who are forming their own culture and how that is threatening.
Masaki, Katsuhiko. "Inclusive Citizenship'for the Chronically Poor: Exploring the
Inclusion-Exclusion Nexus in Collective Struggles." (2007).
Masaki Katsuhiko is a widely recognized author who has worked on the rights of natives
of remote villages. The author provides recommendations to chronic poverty of immigrants and
claims that to eradicate poverty, inclusive citizenship needs to be promoted. The book examines
the living of poor citizens to say that they use citizenship as a tool to get access to justice. The
book focuses on the Sukumbasis of Nepal and conducts a research on the internal discriminations
that they had to face but which helped them to claim inclusion in the long run. The author proves

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that citizenship is an inclusive concept that accepts the marginal poor to give them social
recognition.
The book is chosen to prove that citizenship can be considered an inclusive policy when
natives of marginal groups are given a social recognition. The strength of the book lies in seeing
citizenship as an inclusive concept of cultural plurality and harmony The author conducts
extensive research on the natives of Nepal, the cultural difference, their economic upliftment to
state that citizenship has an inclusive facet that needs governmental recognition. The weakness
of the book is the binary classification of Sukumbasis. By reading only one native, it is difficult
to gauge the inclusiveness of citizenship and its implication on other countries.

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Bibliography
Blitz, Brad K., ed. Migration and freedom: mobility, citizenship and exclusion. Edward Elgar
Publishing, 2014.
Masaki, Katsuhiko. "Inclusive Citizenship'for the Chronically Poor: Exploring the Inclusion-
Exclusion Nexus in Collective Struggles." (2007).
Moosa-Mitha, Mehmoona. Reconfiguring citizenship: Social exclusion and diversity within
inclusive citizenship practices. Routledge, 2016.