(En)gendering the political: Citizenship from marginal spaces

Notes from a refugee protest: ambivalences of resisting and desiring citizenship

“…Yet, in their expectations from Turkey, citizenship was formulated as a mobile set of entitlements that came without the obligation of territorial belonging. In this way, they illustrated that citizenship is always multiple (Turner 2016) and cannot be understood independent of the particular spaces that activate its various forms.…”

Introduction: The Contentious Politics of Refugee and Migrant Protest and Solidarity Movements: Remaking Citizenship from the Margins

“…Doing so enables us to examine the political dynamics of movements in relation to claims and to consider how notions of identity, community, and politics are negotiated in and through movement rather than to begin with already settled notions about what citizenship is and is not. Here we share and build on aims of previous special issues in Citizenship Studies, including 'Engendering the Political: Citizenship from Marginal Space' (Turner 2016) and 'Immigrant Protest' (Tyler and Marciniak 2013), in which political struggles by and for (im)migrants and refugees are of central concern. In his editorial, Turner (2016, 151) calls for critical approaches able to account for 'the radical potential of marginalised acts [that] can open up ways of conceptualising existing regimes of citizenship and new political constellations which work both within and beyond citizenship. '…”

Resistance or resignation to welfare reform? The activist politics for and against social citizenship

“…Alongside increasing workrelated and social obligations, benefit sanctions and welfare withdrawal have created new modes of control, marginality and subordination (Jones et al, 2013;Hodgetts et al, 2014). This article examines what impact these exclusionary practices of citizenship are having on the political subjectivity of welfare claimants (Turner, 2016).…”