Contesting Citizenship: Irregular Migrants and Strategic Possibilities for Political Belonging

McNevin, Anne

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“…In this view, over the course of centuries citizenship has been used as an identity and a practice for constructing political privileges and establishing marginalization. Typically, exclusion has pushed many subjects to perform acts of resistance and this has forced the state to broaden the term as a result of the struggles of noncitizens to legitimate their political identity (McNevin 2006(McNevin , 2009. For her part, Lister (2003) identifies a symbiotic relationship between inclusion and exclusion in the conceptualization and practice of citizenship.…”

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Human Rights, Migration, and Social Conflict

Estévez¹

2012

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Section: Citizenship and Its Ontological Tendency Toward Exclusionmentioning

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Human Rights, Migration, and Social Conflict

Estévez¹

2012

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“…In all cases, a collective element of action is missing; but this may not come as a surprise, as the very irregular character of moving and staying restricts any possibility for collective action. This article focuses on the journey and thus of course leaves out opportunities and actual cases of mobilization of irregular migrants demanding recognition and political belonging (McNevin, ).…”

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The Migration Archipelago: Social Navigation and Migrant Agency

Triandafyllidou

2018

International Migration

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This paper is inscribed into a new line of scholarly work seeking to cast light to the ways in which migrants convert their motivations into action within a policy framework that is characterised by many restrictions and limited opportunities to move. Drawing on recent fieldwork (2013‐2014) on irregular migrants from Afghanistan, Albania, Georgia, Pakistan and the Ukraine, in Greece, we investigate how they perceive opportunities and navigate restrictions eventually crossing borders whether unlawfully (from unguarded border areas or with fake documentation) or legally (abusing the terms of their entry/stay). The paper adopts the notion of social navigation as a heuristics tool to conceptualise the social, temporal and spatial character of the migration journey, its nodal points, and the interaction of migrants with different actors and factors that shape their migration plans and explores different types of migrant agency (recuperation, resilience and resistance) developed during the navigation process.

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“…These ambiguities capture tensions inherent to gendered, sexualized, and racialized positions defined by homonationalist agendas. Such tensions are not limited to migrants or refugees, but at work in the positions of racialized and queer groups in general (Sager 2018;McNevin 2009;Peumans 2014). Third, in/visibility has a performative dimension; for instance, in the case of "aesthetic forms, dress codes, or architectural genres" (G€ ole 2011: 387), which allows for a sensitivity to agency in the analysis of positions of in/visibility.…”

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Challenging the visibility paradigm: Tracing ambivalences in lesbian migrant women’s negotiations of sexual identity

Liinason

2019

Journal of Lesbian Studies

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In this article, I want to illuminate a more diverse image of lesbian lives in the Nordic region than what is often assumed through Western-centric notions of the global queer community and of "out and proud" visibility. Moving beyond dichotomous divisions between visibility and invisibility, I approach in/visibility as an ambivalent, ambiguous, and performative concept. My fieldwork data illuminate that non-heterosexual migrant women in this context do not primarily subscribe to a so-called "Western" visibility paradigm. I analyze how non-heterosexual migrant women, primarily Muslim, exercise ownership of their sexual identities and how they negotiate the degree to which their romantic and sexual relations become-or do not-points of discussion. As these women were involved in multi-layered negotiations in relation to their families, queer communities, and nations, their positionings in relation to the visibility paradigm differed. However, on a general level, their positionings could be interpreted as simultaneously in and out of the closet, or neither in nor out. These ambivalences and ambiguities, I suggest, illuminate the need to challenge the visibility/invisibility divide, and highlight the importance of paying attention to multiple, context-specific, and intersecting forms of power. Drawing on these discussions, I propose the need to rethink notions of community, family, and home within a framework of queer livability.

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Contesting Citizenship: Irregular Migrants and Strategic Possibilities for Political Belonging

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Human Rights, Migration, and Social Conflict

Human Rights, Migration, and Social Conflict

The Migration Archipelago: Social Navigation and Migrant Agency

Challenging the visibility paradigm: Tracing ambivalences in lesbian migrant women’s negotiations of sexual identity

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