Negotiating Citizenship explores the growing inequalities associated with nation-based citizenship from the perspective of migrant women workers who have made their way from impoverished Third World countries to work in Canada in the caregiving industries of domestic service and nursing. The study demonstrates the impact of the global political economy, public and private gatekeeping mechanisms, and racialized and gendered stereotypes on the contested relationship between citizen-employers and non-citizen female migrant workers in Canada.

According to politics and the media, immigration and individualization drive citizens apart but in neighbourhoods social life is often thriving, depending on the talents of particular citizens or of local institutions. This book examines new forms of active citizenship and the actual conditions that hinder social cohesion.

This book challenges the assumptions behind the idea of digital citizenship in order to turn the attention to cases of innovation, social change and public good.

Fitzgerald's careful ethnographic fieldwork supports a process-based model of extra-territorial citizenship, in which migrants claim citizenship in their places of origin even when physically absent. He focuses on the consequences of transnational political attitudes and behavior for migrant-sending communities.