This book offers ground-breaking insights on how the dynamics of conditional inclusion and "good" citizenship play out today, with a focus on migrant and immigrant-origin minorities in Europe and the Americas. The book shows that conditional inclusion is a globally widespread tool for controlling and rank-ordering minorities.

1. Introduction-Good immigrants, permitted outsiders: conditional inclusion and citizenship in comparison 2. Claiming membership: boundaries, positionality, US citizenship, and what it means to be American 3. Cultivated intuition: reframing migrant responses to the "Public Charge" policy 4. "Muslims are finally waking up": post-9/11 American immigrant youth challenge conditional citizenship 5. Citizens-in-waiting: strategic naturalization delays in the USA and UAE 6. Being Muslim 'without a fuss': relaxed religiosity and conditional inclusion in Danish schools and society 7. New models of the "good refugee" - bureaucratic expectations of Syrian refugees in Germany 8. Intergenerational narratives of citizenship among EU citizens in the UK after the Brexit referendum 9. Labouring for inclusion: debating immigrant contributions to Chile 10. The transnational continuum of conditional inclusion: from marginalised immigrants to rejected returnees