Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- 1. Mapping the soft borders of citizenship: An introduction -- Unpacking the migration and citizenship nexus -- Normalizing legal ambiguity and protracted precariousness -- Everyday spaces and practices of inclusion and exclusion -- Becoming political: contesting the boundaries of membership -- Notes -- References -- 2. Citizenship's shadow: Obscene inclusion, abject belonging, or the regularities of migrant 'irregularity' -- Bordered identities -- Borders make migrants -- Bordering: the obscene work of inclusionary 'exclusion' -- The biopolitics of borders -- In the shadows of a bordered world -- Notes -- References -- 3. Spaces of legal ambiguity: Central American immigrants, 'streetlevel workers', and belonging -- Immigrants' encounters with 'street-level gatekeepers' -- Workplace enforcement -- Access to health care -- Access to education -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4. 'Til deportation do us part: The effect of U.S. immigration law on mixed-status couples' experience of citizenship -- The dimensions of citizenship -- Methodology -- Lived citizenship across all its dimensions -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 5. Inclusive exclusion? The regulation and experience of citizenship in a space of irregular migration in Istanbul -- Turkey's migration transition -- Emergence of an irregular migrant hub in Istanbul -- Experiencing irregularity of status in Kumkapi -- Concluding thoughts -- Notes -- References -- 6. Citizenship acts: Legality, power and the limits of political action -- Theorizing citizenship in a context of migration -- Interviewing immigrants during the protests of 2006 -- It's like a match that is lighted': citizenship acts and collective efficacy