Introduction 1
1 Irregular Migrants and New Frontiers of the Political 11
2 The Globalizing State: Remaking Sovereignty and Citizenship 40
3 Policing Australia's Borders: New Terrains of Sovereign Practice 68
4 Acts of Contestation: The Sans-Papiers of France 93
5 From City to Citizen: Modes of Belonging in the United States 118
Conclusion: Contentious Spaces of Political Belonging 146
Notes 157
Bibliography 193
Index 219