Constituting Citizenship Through the Emotions: Singaporean Transmigrants in London

Ho, Elaine Lynn‐Ee

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“…He establishes home at the local level, as 'here', and it is a conscious deci-sion, which can be linked to the inherent ambivalence that Abdul experiences with regard to what he describes as feeling "divided". His way of managing where 'home' is, seems to be a good example of the kinds of emotional management that many migrants rationally engage in (Ho, 2009 The visit to Pakistan is important for Maryam's reflections about return migration, and where 'home' is located, like it is for Masooda. In Maryam's case the ambivalence of realizing that you do not belong fully, neither here, nor there, is very clear.…”

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“…Migrants' agency in managing ambivalence with regard to home, identity and belonging is significant and can usefully be understood through what Ho (2009) describes as migrants' emotional management. She argues that migrants' sense of identity and belonging with regard both to questions about citizenship, and in the context of return considerations or actual return migration, are highly contingent on migrants' emotional management strategies.…”

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‘This is My Home’

Erdal

2014

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Considerations about return are a persistent dimension of identity work in migrant populations. The question of where and what constitutes 'home' for migrants is central to understanding processes of integration, sustained transnational ties, and return considerations, because reflections about 'home' are reflective of belonging. Based on analysis of migrants' and descendants reflections about the possibility of return migration, this paper asks: how is 'home' located in the transnational social field, and in which ways do the mutually overlapping spatial, temporal, emotional and rational dimensions of home matter? The paper draws on semi-structured interviews and focus groups with a total of 75 migrants and descendants from Pakistan and Poland living in Norway. Data from the two migrant groups with distinct migration histories are combined. Perhaps surprisingly, more similarities than differences are found between the two groups, with regard to their reflections about belonging. Considerations about return are found to be revealing of changing perspectives on home. For many there is an inherent ambivalence, reflected in home being located here, or there, or both, or neither. However, both migrants' and descendants exert agency in their own ways of locating 'home' and managing the spatial, temporal, emotional and rational dimensions involved.

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‘This is My Home’

Erdal

2014

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“…In sum, and following Ho (2009), this paper urges greater theoretical attention to the ways in which citizenship and, to which I would also add; belonging (Waite and Cook 2010) -are constituted through emotions. In particular, scholars should not only explore how emotional subjectivities emerge in response to citizenship governance (Ho 2009, p.789), but also countenance the possibility that transnational migrant emotional subjectivities may develop in spite of state neoassimilationist invocations of national belonging within overarching frameworks of neoliberal citizenship (Sparke 2006).…”

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Neo-assimilationist citizenship and belonging policies in Britain: Meanings for transnational migrants in northern England

Waite¹

2012

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including the URL of the record and the reason for the withdrawal request. 1 RESEARCH ARTICLENeo-assimilationist citizenship and belonging policies in Britain: Meanings for transnational migrants in northern England. AbstractThe overall aim of this paper is to contribute to debates on the relationships between citizenship and migration in the UK context in the light of recent changes in UK immigration policy. In particular, it focuses on the question of what an increasingly neo-assimilationist state articulation of national belonging means for transnational migrants living in Britain. The paper begins by charting the evolving nature of citizenship conceptualisations in Western neoliberal contexts and illustrates how Britain has T erein the state implies that the integrity of the nation state and its security can only be assured if migration flows and migrants themselves are closely controlled and monitored. This has led to Britain attempting to bolster the formal institution of citizenship (with its attendant rights and responsibilities) and tie it more explicitly to notions of belonging to the nation. Through research with national/regional policy officials and migrant organisations this paper firstly examines the political landscape of citizenship and belonging in Britain as it relates to migrants. Secondly, it draws on research with African transnational migrants in northern England to explore their senses of belonging and ask whether these cohere with the described state discourse or whether their feelings of belonging exist in tension with neoassimilationist policies designed to promote a core national identity.

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“…Ho, 2009;Leitner & Ehrkamp, 2006;Kobayashi, Preston, & Murnaghan, 2011;Yeoh & Willis, 2005) as well as the construction of migrant identities in local places and communities (e.g. Nelson & Hiemstra, 2008;Noble, 2009;Wessendorf, 2013).…”

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‘We want to be there for everyone’: imagined spaces of encounter and the politics of place in a super-diverse neighbourhood

Hoekstra

Pinkster

2017

Social & Cultural Geography

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In the context of increasingly diverse urban populations in European cities, neighbourhood organizations are often seen as offering spaces of encounter that can foster a sense of belonging. As a result, they have formed an important element in urban policies on community identity and social cohesion. Yet everyday encounters in such micropublics may not necessarily be experienced as positive, and these spaces themselves might become sites of contestation and exclusion. Through an ethnographic study in a super-diverse neighbourhood in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, this paper investigates how residents' sense of belonging to the neighbourhood is informed by competing claims on a neighbourhood centre. Although envisioned as a collective space, contestations between different groups of residents over the centre as a functional and meaningful place illustrate how governing institutions shape informal politics of place through their own vision for the neighbourhood and their selective support of some initiatives over others.

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Constituting Citizenship Through the Emotions: Singaporean Transmigrants in London

Cited by 137 publications

References 62 publications

‘This is My Home’

‘This is My Home’

Neo-assimilationist citizenship and belonging policies in Britain: Meanings for transnational migrants in northern England

‘We want to be there for everyone’: imagined spaces of encounter and the politics of place in a super-diverse neighbourhood

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