Contesting liberal-colonial citizenship: the planetary model of citizenship and the struggle for the 'right to shelter'.

ABSTRACT: Anti-immigrant mobilization has reached a new peak with the rise of right-wing neo-fascist movements and many problems in contemporary societies are discursively linked to immigration. These developments pose new challenges to the ongoing struggle for immigrants' rights, as current discourses on so-called "sanctuary cities" in the United States demonstrate. The article makes the case that these phenomena are connected to different knowledge orders about citizenship and its underlying principles. While the liberal nation-state is based on the idea of the equality and national sovereignty, new social movements have fundamentally problematized global social inequalities and injustices. Their visions are not only about equality between humans, but include a different understanding of society's

SUBMITTER: Peeck-Ho C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12285653 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature