Conceptualising Marginalisation: Agency, Assertion, and Personhood

Chandrachud, Dhananjaya Y.

doi:10.1177/23944811221104289

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“…Accordingly, first, the complete dataset was read several times to develop familiarity and a deeper understanding of the experiences of undocumented workers. The informants' experiences presented a unique opportunity for expanding the theorization of personhood (e.g., Chandrachud, 2022;Kittay, 2005), especially with respect to relational and agentic dimensions in the pursuit of recognition within social and legal spheres. Two key insights emerged from these readings of the data.…”

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“…The final form of anchoring work in shaping personhood involves practices aimed at conceiving and articulating personhood through personal values and beliefs. Personhood is associated with a particular status, where individuals who surpass the personhood threshold are recognized as persons and are entitled to moral rights (Chandrachud, 2022). So, being a person not only entails the entitlement to moral rights, but also the responsibility to comply with the normative considerations of the broader society.…”

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Coping with personhood limbo: Personhood anchoring work among undocumented workers in Italy

Derakhshan,

Soundararajan,

Agarwal

et al. 2024

Human Relations

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Prevailing socio-legal structures create a state of personhood limbo for undocumented workers, where broader society undermines various aspects of their personhood in a way that prevents them from fully representing and embracing all dimensions of their selves in and around the workplace. But how do undocumented workers cope with personhood limbo? Drawing on interviews with undocumented workers and civil society workers in Italy, we identify specific forms of what we call “personhood anchoring work” that undocumented workers engage in to claim aspects of personhood that are meaningful to them. Our theorization suggests that workers’ experiences of personhood are influenced not only by socio-legal structures, but also by their own agentic acts in response to external conditions, as well as their aspirations, past experiences, and future plans. A key finding of our study is that these practices do not aim to create or disrupt social orders, even in subtle or hidden forms of resistance. Instead, they enable undocumented workers to temporarily position themselves within the social order. In doing so, we also introduce a new way of conceptualizing the integration of undocumented workers that can account for the possibilities and limits of retaining rather than redefining personhood in the face of prevailing constraints.

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confidence: 99%