• The shifting position of the non-citizen in contemporary immigration societies;
• The intersection of human mobility, immigration control and articulations of citizenship;
• Activism and everyday practices of membership and belonging;
• Tension in policy and practice between coexisting traditions and regimes of rights;
• Mixed status families, belonging and citizenship;
• The ways in which immigration status (or its absence) intersects with social cleavages such as age, class, gender and 'race' to shape social relations.

This book will appeal to academics and practitioners working in the disciplines of Social and Political Anthropology, Sociology, Social Policy, Human Geography, Political Sciences, Citizenship Studies and Migration Studies.