Citizenship

Ehrkamp, Patricia; Jacobsen, Malene H.

doi:10.1002/9781118725771.ch13

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“…37 The admin-speak that accompanies such measures naturalize their exclusionary function, voiding ethical concerns. 38 Readers in the Global North may be led to empathize with refugees, but that does not diminish the fact that they are also a latent border patrol policing refugees' illicit arrival. The security that allows leisure reading aligns the reader with the sleeping woman and her alarm system, creating a layered, troubled identification between the reader and multiple characters.…”

Section: Critical Counter-imaginings: Hamid's Exit Westmentioning

confidence: 99%

Navigating the Global Refugee Regime: Law, Myth, Story

Hong

2020

Amerasia Journal

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This article engages in a cultural study of refugee law "from below," that is, from the perspective of refugees. Bringing to bear insights from critical refugee studies, I argue that today's global refugee regime is a gatekeeping apparatus that protects Global North wealth and borders, though this function is masked by humanitarian narratives. UNHCR articles and Mohsin Hamid's novel Exit West, while contrasting examples, both demonstrate the fraught primacy of story in refugee law and politics. Refugee discourses proceed through navigational storytelling, as authors encounter, name, reframe, dodge, and challenge prevailing myths that paint the regime as care.

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Section: Critical Counter-imaginings: Hamid's Exit Westmentioning

confidence: 99%

Navigating the Global Refugee Regime: Law, Myth, Story

Hong

2020

Amerasia Journal

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“…Following migrants' trajectories in the city of São Paulo, southeast of Brazil, and more specifically Mamadou's story 1 , I argue that to their "sustainability of life" (Magliano, Arrieta, 2021) these migrants practice citizenship through a wide range of scales, people, and infrastructures (Meeus, Arnaut, Heur, 2019;Jung, Buhr, 2021) of and beyond State. So, public institutions, informal labor market, the home, churches, social projects, dwelling occupation, NGOs, and crime mediate the tension between the formal idea of citizenship and inequalities, resulting in a "complex geography of citizenship" (Ehrkamp, Jacobsen, 2015) that makes the limits of legal/illegal; regular/irregular; order/disorder; permanent/temporary; place of origin/place of destination more uncertain.…”

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Borders of Citizenship and the everyday life of African migrants' in the city of São Paulo, southeast of Brazil.

Fernandes

2023

REMHU, Rev. Interdiscip. Mobil. Hum.

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This paper proposes the notion of the “Borders of Citizenship” to emphasize people and mobility infrastructures (Jung, Buhr, 2021) that mediate citizenship through many places, actors, and social codes of and beyond the State. Thus, based on the concept of relational citizenship (Staheli et al., 2012), I present an Ethnography carried out from 2019 to 2022 in a Cultural Center, founded by African migrants in the city of São Paulo. More specifically, I draw attention to the center’s creation through Mamadou’s trajectory, the owner of the center, to highlight how mobility infrastructures play a decisive role in mediating migrant’s everyday life through many places, actors, and scales expanding their “sustainability of life”, materially and immaterially. I argue that these ordinary spaces are not politically inconsequential for the city or for the migrants. Rather, it shows how mobility and the city are entangled among many mediations that go beyond State, presenting local protagonists, (in)formal networks, and a sense of belonging that constantly reshapes Citizenship.

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“…We ought not to think of citizenship and thus propertied -citizenship as merely a rights-bearing status, however. Citizenship encompasses more than a legal status alone (Staeheli, 2010); citizenship is also an “active process of being and becoming political” (Ehrkamp and Jacobsen, 2015: 155). As Isin (2008) notes, citizenship is not a pre-determined status but, rather, it is “enacted” unevenly over time and through various relations of power and domination.…”

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Without a right to remain: Property’s limits on Portland’s self-governing houseless encampments

Przybylinski

2022

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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With the rise of organized houseless encampments or “tent cities” around the U.S., scholars have begun to address the social-spatial effects of encampments on houseless peoples’ lives. This scholarship has primarily explained the development of organized encampments as an effect of neoliberal modes of governance as municipalities have sought to offload responsibility for caring for the houseless or to discipline houseless people by containing them through the regulative force of the state. Such explanations address the culpability of the state in relation to capital which shapes houseless peoples’ lives. Yet, they leave unaddressed one critical component of houseless encampments: that relations surrounding property ensure that houseless encampment residents remain property-insecure and without a guaranteed right to remain. Through a case study of self-governing houseless encampments in Portland, Oregon, the article advances a relational analysis of property and citizenship to show how self-governing houseless communities are denied key privileges of citizenship that democratic self-governance is intended to realize. In doing so, the case study examines the very tradeoffs houseless encampment residents must make when living in an encampment. The paper ends suggesting that Portland’s encampment model allows us to more clearly see the consequences of establishing collective rights to access property within liberal property systems, and from this, where political and scholarly attention ought to be placed to better protect houseless people through a more democratic right to remain.

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Citizenship

Cited by 11 publications

References 69 publications

Navigating the Global Refugee Regime: Law, Myth, Story

Navigating the Global Refugee Regime: Law, Myth, Story

Borders of Citizenship and the everyday life of African migrants' in the city of São Paulo, southeast of Brazil.

Without a right to remain: Property’s limits on Portland’s self-governing houseless encampments

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