{"title":"Refugee citizenship: citizenship as a means to make a claim about refugeehood","authors":"A. Bentz","doi":"10.1080/13621025.2023.2202897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2023.2202897","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article argues for the use of refugee citizenship as a concept to analyse the kind of citizenship sought after, and experienced, by refugees in a protracted situation who want to retain some aspects of refugeehood in order to continue to fight for an endangered homeland. It is based on fieldwork conducted in 2019 with young Tibetans in Toronto who refer to themselves as Tibetan-Canadians or Canadian-Tibetans. Their experience of a dual affiliation, being both Canadian citizens and Tibetan refugees, informs the discussion of how a homeland cause can lead refugees in a protracted situation to have an ambivalent, insider/outsider, position vis-à-vis the newly acquired citizenship of the (usually Western) host country.","PeriodicalId":47860,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"427 - 445"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46341114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hukou, socio-spatial class, and the strategic citizenship practices of Chinese labour migrants in Australia","authors":"C. Stevens","doi":"10.1080/13621025.2023.2181943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2023.2181943","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT China does not permit dual nationality, meaning migrants in Australia must evaluate the benefits of Chinese versus Australian citizenship. Decisions about competing citizenship statuses are informed not only by this prohibition of dual nationality but also by individuals’ classed positions. By comparing the choices of trade skilled migrants from different backgrounds in China, this paper shows that homeland social class is a key factor in decision-making processes, particularly the uniquely Chinese spatial expression of class manifested through the hukou system and the differential local citizenship this entails. An analysis of representative cases illustrates the complexities of evaluating memberships acquired through migration and nested memberships resulting from local citizenship with China. People from different backgrounds and, importantly, different places in China’s socio-spatial hierarchy value their Chinese legal status differently. The differential effects, both material and symbolic, of membership in or exclusion from urban centres in China form a critical part of individuals’ calculations, over and above the national-level membership within which local hukou citizenship is nested.","PeriodicalId":47860,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"446 - 464"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42984350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How do protest and resistance make citizens and citizenship? An interview with Engin Isin","authors":"M. Benson","doi":"10.1080/13621025.2023.2171250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2023.2171250","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This interview was originally conducted in March 2021 for Who do we think we are? (2021), a podcast series I host, discussing urgent questions of citizenship and migration in Britain today. At the heart of the series is a commitment to showcasing social science knowledge and understanding to demonstrate how these might challenge public and political understandings of Britishness and belonging and offer alternatives ways of thinking about a range of current issues, including the Windrush Deportation Scandal, the citizenship test, and the UK government’s commitments to the people of Hong Kong. The series follows a narrative format, using edited excerpts from the recorded interviews within each episode. Excerpts from this interview appear in Episode 9: What does it mean to be a citizen? (released 10 December 2021). https://whodowethinkweare.org/podcast-episode/how-do-protest-and-resistance-make-citizens-and-citizenship/","PeriodicalId":47860,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"310 - 328"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46342666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Citizenship and statelessness among mobile maritime populations: the case of the Moken in Thailand","authors":"Janepicha Cheva-Isarakul, Christoph Sperfeldt","doi":"10.1080/13621025.2023.2178638","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2023.2178638","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Mobile maritime peoples have lived itinerant lifestyles across Southeast Asia for centuries. In times where non-state spaces are diminishing and individual rights depend increasingly on a recognised legal identity, their livelihoods and traditions are affected by state practices surrounding citizenship. Drawing on fieldwork in southern Thailand, this paper explores how the lives of the Moken have been affected by the way state-based legal identity and citizenship regimes are enacted. In doing so, this article presents views held by Moken communities about their life and the challenges they face in accessing Thai citizenship despite legal reforms in the recent years. More than other populations, mobile peoples allow us to see the ‘problem of citizenship’ and the effects arising from its practice in different localities. Our research highlights the importance of considering the agency and choices of (formerly) mobile peoples in the implementation of state-based citizenship and legal identity regimes.","PeriodicalId":47860,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"530 - 547"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44783565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nationalism and populist politics: the migrant-citizen conundrum in Assam","authors":"M. Jha, Anindita Chakrabarty","doi":"10.1080/13621025.2023.2178637","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2023.2178637","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The article explores the far-reaching repercussions of British colonialism in producing hierarchical identities around religion, identity, and ethnicity in the northeastern state of Assam in India. The trajectory of people’s mobility across the border, due to political and economic reasons, has led to contention around legality, demography, and electoral outcomes. The article elucidates how nationalism, populism and the politics of insecurity have been played out whereby perceived collective threats are framed and acted upon. Traversing from past to present and apprehending the lurking dystopia, the article explains how the populist politics of othering residents in the borderland state of Assam has initiated various statist initiatives to differentiate natives from migrants, and citizens from residents. It grapples with the shifting meaning of a ‘native’ that qualifies or disqualifies populations from their citizenship, and examines how populist governance uses a migrant figure to seek legitimacy of its exclusionary citizenship policies and practices. It explores the dialogic functioning of a Hindu nationalist governance at the centre and an ethno-nationalist governance in Assam in a right-wing populist milieu. In the context in which migration is framed as a threat to the people, the article engages with the politics of insecurity, anxiety, and grievance.","PeriodicalId":47860,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"514 - 529"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47916545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multiculturalism as a negotiated citizenship: voices of second-generation Black Jamaicans","authors":"Esra Ari, Antón L. Allahar","doi":"10.1080/13621025.2023.2178636","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2023.2178636","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study examines the lived experiences of second-generation Black Jamaicans and investigates how they interpret Canadian multiculturalism while navigating racism in their everyday lives. There is no dearth of research on multiculturalism in Canada. However, this article makes a fresh contribution to debates on multiculturalism by exploring how multiculturalism is understood and articulated as a claim-making process by a racialized group under lived citizenship framework. It extends the discussions on multiculturalism from a state-centered analysis to citizenship from below. Drawing from 22 interviews with second-generation Black Jamaicans, this study maintains that citizenship is a dynamic process through which research participants make claims to rights and belonging and negotiate their position vis-à-vis the state and other citizens to put the ideals of multiculturalism into practice.","PeriodicalId":47860,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"498 - 513"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43940164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A philosophy of the theory of “acts of citizenship” woven into the fabric of a political anthropology of citizenship","authors":"Martin Roy, C. Neveu","doi":"10.1080/13621025.2023.2171254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2023.2171254","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The significance of Engin F. Isin’s theory of ‘acts of citizenship’ lies not only in its popularity amongst social scientists but, principally, in its engagement with a political anthropology of citizenship. In a collaborative spirit and committed to a political anthropology of citizenship, we critically engage with Isin’s theory, demonstrating how it builds on various normative difficulties that should be acknowledged by anyone using it as methodology, especially for those engaged in anthropologizing the field of citizenship studies. Our examination begins by showing how the theory draws from theoretical works belonging to the causalist school of the philosophy of action, which allows us to untangle the tacit didascaly through which Isin values the introduction of the concept of ‘act’ into our language(s) of citizenship. By tackling its underlying normative bias, we make clear the fundamental element of Isin’s argument: the refusal to reduce citizenship to mere unpurposive processes. Yet, it is unclear, we argue, how citizenship can effectively be captured through purposive processes by investigating ‘acts of citizenship’. Finally, we demonstrate how anthropology allows us to critically address the reductionism at play in the normative distinction between ‘active’ and ‘activist’ citizenship, constituting the very core of Isin’s theory.","PeriodicalId":47860,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Studies","volume":"363 ","pages":"385 - 405"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41276431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The legacy of Being Political","authors":"Ian A. Morrison","doi":"10.1080/13621025.2023.2171249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2023.2171249","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT 2022 marks the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Engin F. Isin’s Being Political: Genealogies of Citizenship, a text which, through its influence on a generation of scholars, has become a, if not the, key text in the field of critical studies of citizenship. By drawing on theoretical traditions and methodologies beyond the usual purview of the field, as well as those subsisting on its margins, Being Political calls into question the nature of citizenship studies, challenging many of the assumptions and fundamental categories and definitions which had come to characterize and delimit the field. The occasion of the twentieth anniversary of Being Political affords us the opportunity to engage with its legacy. The passing of 20 years provides sufficient distance from the time of publication to a) contextualize Being Political – to approach the text as responding to, and working through and against a certain historical, geopolitical and academic context, and identify the ways in which the text continues to respond to changing contexts and questions; b) determine the impact of Being Political, how it has been received within the field of citizenship studies and transformed by various interpretations, and how these interpretations have influenced the direction of citizenship studies; and c) understand Being Political in relation to Isin’s larger project of thinking citizenship and the political, something that he signals in the wake of the book’s publication, but the full meaning of which would not have been available even to him at the time of publication. In other words, this distance allows for the sort of reflection that by carefully engaging with the text itself, contextualizing it and putting it into conversation with other academic traditions, fields, questions and the larger trajectory of Isin’s work, permits us to not only clarify and complicate the text and its interpretations but also to attend to some of the traps that accompany the reception of influential texts.","PeriodicalId":47860,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"293 - 309"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49105233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Otherness as a condition of citizenship’: alterity, extimacy and citizenship after orientalism","authors":"Ian A. Morrison","doi":"10.1080/13621025.2023.2171255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2023.2171255","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT From the genealogies of citizenship in Being Political to his more recent explorations of performance and performativity, Engin Isin’s attempts to think citizenship after orientalism have been explicitly guided by a ‘focus on otherness as a condition of citizenship’ (2002, 3). Both within and beyond the field of citizenship studies, Isin’s call to investigate citizenship as alterity has contributed to a radical rethinking of the nature of citizenship, political subjectivity, collective identity, and the relation of self to other. It is the meaning of a ‘focus on otherness as a condition of citizenship’ that is addressed in this article. This is undertaken, first, by examining the place of otherness within Isin’s investigations of citizenship. Second, it is argued that addressing otherness in terms of extimacy, a term which designates both the presence of exteriority in the deepest interiority (intimacy) of the subject, and the ‘resultant nondistinction and identity of the exterior and the intimate or most interior’ (Pavón-Cuéllar 2014, 661), allows us to recognize additional ways in which otherness serves as a condition of citizenship, and, thereby, to further pursue Isin’s aim of understanding the relation of citizenship and otherness beyond logics of exclusion and enclosure. Approaching otherness as a condition of citizenship in terms of extimacy reveals the very scenes in which the categories of citizenship and its others are asserted, reproduced and/or overturned as implicated in and structured by structures of fantasy and desire.","PeriodicalId":47860,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"406 - 421"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45401617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Field relationalism versus process relationalism in citizenship studies","authors":"Raivo Vetik","doi":"10.1080/13621025.2023.2171253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2023.2171253","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article analyses the state-of-art literature in the field of citizenship studies based on relational approaches. It does so by differentiating between field relationalism (FR) and process relationalism (PR) and comparing, in this context, the framing of citizenship by three leading relationalist scholars in the field: Engin Isin, Margaret Somers and Gurminder Bhambra. In doing so, we focus first on the ways in which they envisage overcoming the analytical dualisms responsible for social exclusion and the hierarchies related to citizenship, and second on their normative assumptions concerning the emancipation of society. We demonstrate that the differences between the two metatheoretical assumptions have important implications for understanding each author’s research objects and methodology, as well as the normative assumptions present in their study of citizenship.","PeriodicalId":47860,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"365 - 384"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45425641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}