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This title adds a new dimension to the citizenship literature by using citizenship as a lens through which to explore the relation between personal lives and social policy. Citizenship is both one of the most taken-for-granted and most contested ideas in British social policy. While some claim that it defines the parameters of rights and responsibilities in advanced liberal democracies, others consider it to be among the most exclusionary of discourses and practices. Spurred by the effects of globalization, the rise in the movement of people around the world, and the profound reconstruction of welfare forms and relations, the issue of citizenship has come to occupy a central place in both official and popular debates. Taking these debates as the starting-point, this book focuses on the following domains to consider some of the dimensions of the lived practices and experiences of citizenship: the 'high moment' of working-class citizenship that was embodied in the post-war welfare state; the conflicts and anxieties experienced by children and parents in the transition to secondary school; the struggle of refugees and asylum seekers to gain right of residence in the UK and the possibi
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Gail Lewis is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at The Open University. Her research interests centre on the intersections between social policy, the social divisions of gender and 'race' and the project of nation building.
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