Citizenship and identity: living in diasporas in post-war Europe?

Soysal, Yasemin Nuhoğlu

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“…Debido a que la globalización centra su interés en procesos macrosociológicos, descuida la forma en cómo estas se desarrollaron en los niveles micro, olvidando a los sujetos que representan la otra cara de la globalización (Robertson, 2000;Soysal, 2000). La precariedad en la vivienda, y los problemas educativos y sanitarios, están generando situaciones de miseria y de desesperanza social, que favorecen el planteamiento de estrategias de procesos migratorios internacionales por motivos laborales (Saprin, 2002).…”

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La posición geopolítica marroquí como frontera vertical de la Unión Europea

Miras

2017

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El siglo XXI está siendo protagonista de un cierre fronterizo sin precedentes a la libre circulación de personas, pero no de mercancías, bienes o capital, promovido por los países del norte, y en connivencia con los dirigentes de los países del sur, generando una grave fractura social. El objetivo del presente artículo fue analizar de qué manera la Unión Europea (UE), estáfavoreciendo la emergencia deuna frontera que cruza verticalmente Marruecos (entre otros países), imposibilitando a lo largo de su territorio la llegada a la UE, no sólo de su población, sino también la procedente del resto de África. Se analizaron diferentesfuentes secundarias, producidas por organismos internacionales como la Agencia Europea de la Guardia de Fronteras y Costas, la Comisión Europea, Amnistía Internacional y Médicos Sin Fronteras. La externalización de la fronterade la UE, en el plano político,junto a la deslocalización, en el plano económico, de empresas europeas en algunos países del sur de Europa, como Marruecos, está consolidando laexistencia de nuevos espaciosque configuran lo que se denomina frontera vertical, donde emergen nuevos escenariossocioeconómicos y simbólicos.

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La posición geopolítica marroquí como frontera vertical de la Unión Europea

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2017

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“…On the one hand there are those who contend that key characteristics of citizenship, such as right-claims and political participation, have become decoupled from nationality in an increasingly globalized world: that a post-national citizenship is emerging (Soysal 1994(Soysal , 2000. When Pakistani immigrants in Britain make demands for the teaching of Islam in state schools, they mobilize around a Muslim identity (Soysal 2000), increasingly globalized through the cybernet of the online ummah and through return visits to Pakistan. However, they also appeal to a universalistic language of 'human rights' to justify their claims.…”

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Global insecurity and citizenship strategies: Young Muslims in the West

Kinnvall

Nesbitt‐Larking²

2011

Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory

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This article is set in the contemporary context of global challenges: economic crises, state deformations, and rapidly accelerating flows of people, ideas, and ideals. It has two main aims. One is to establish theoretical and empirical links between securitization studies and analyses of citizenship in the light of globalization, multiculturalism and discourses on terror. The second is to illustrate how macro events play out at the collective and individual level in terms of socio-psychological (in)securities that condition different citizenship strategies. The empirical basis for the article includes our studies of Western Muslims in the Netherlands, France, the UK, Sweden, Denmark, and Canada. The article proposes and develops three maps of citizenship strategies in three major sections: retreatism, essentialism, and engagement. Each section elaborates psycho-spatial ways of being in the world that characterize both majority populations and Muslim minorities as they attempt to adapt to the rapidly changing and challenging nature of a globalizing world. The first is the Westphalian version of retreatism that is grounded in an orientalist world of metropolis and distant colony. The other two citizenship strategies are motivated by a world in which territory and space are increasingly in question. In response to a shrinking global experience, the second citizenship strategy, that of essentialism, builds upon and reinforces the binary opposition between East and West in the panic establishment of psycho-social distance, separateness, and rigid distinctiveness. The third citizenship strategy is that of engagement. A strategy of engagement affirms and works with the plurilocational, multiple, and hybrid experiences of the postcolonial and increasingly cosmopolitical world in practices of dialogical openness and deep multiculturalism.

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“…For diasporic visitors to a former homeland, observations and encounters with the daily "lived" culture of its people, as here described, may be an important way in which they measure the similarity or dissimilarity of their own cultural heritage against that of the indigenous population, with sense of association of identity for the exiles and is perceived by the diaspora to possess core cultural values that are uncontaminated by the "pollution" of other cultures or other elements of change (Basu, 2004;Brubaker, 2005;Soysal, 2000). Visits to heritage sites on return trips to their homeland thus have the potential to strengthen ethnic identity and provide personal meaning in the lives of the diaspora.…”

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Diasporic Identity, Heritage, and "Homecoming": How Sarawakian-Chinese Tourists Feel on Tour in Beijing

Tie¹,

Seaton²

2013

Tourism Analysis

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The Chinese have become one of the most widely dispersed races across the globe. Yet they have often implicitly resisted this dispersion by a powerful, but often unspoken, mythic commitment to the image of China as an enduring homeland, rather than accepting any irreversible transfer of cultural allegiance and identity to the receiving country. Part of this myth of temporary exile, held and cherished by some diasporic groups, has been the dream of "going back," the return to one's roots. Increasingly, modern tourism apparently offers an easily accessed and temporary mechanism for going back to a Chinese "homeland" and seeking to discover and explore authentic Chinese identity. This article focuses on the possibilities of diasporic reconnection through tourism and specifically the role of heritage tourism encounters in an ethnic homeland from which some have been separated for long periods, and others have never seen. It explores theoretical and empirical issues attached to diasporic identity and "homecoming" tourism, using case study data collected from Chinese diasporic tourists from Sarawak on a package tour of China. In presenting the results, the analysis adopts a dual interpretative approach to heritage that evolved from the data analysis, in which it was decoded by the tour party members as both observations of the quotidian cultural activities and values of the Chinese people, and observations of the selective constructions of public culture provided and promoted by public agencies. The two perceived aspects of heritage generated contradictory responses within the tour party that were partly a reflection of perceptions and judgments about the intrinsic features of things observed (e.g., their authenticity and social acceptability). They were also due to differences in the backgrounds of members of the diasporic party in terms of language resources, span of generational residence in Sarawak as emigrants from China, and religion.

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Citizenship and identity: living in diasporas in post-war Europe?

Cited by 255 publications

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La posición geopolítica marroquí como frontera vertical de la Unión Europea

La posición geopolítica marroquí como frontera vertical de la Unión Europea

Global insecurity and citizenship strategies: Young Muslims in the West

Diasporic Identity, Heritage, and "Homecoming": How Sarawakian-Chinese Tourists Feel on Tour in Beijing

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