Home is where the heart is; citizenship is where it is safe: dual citizenship and Europe

Skulte-Ouaiss, Jennifer

doi:10.1080/1070289x.2012.763166

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“…Aleinikoff and Klusmeyer 2001;Faist and Kivisto 2007;Gustafson 2002;Hansen and Weil 2002;Sejersen 2008). Paralleling the scarcity of micro level research in citizenship literature, scholars, with few exceptions (Conway, Potter and Bernard 2008;Ronkainen 2011;Skulte-Ouaiss 2013) that I will delve into in the next section, have seldom dealt with individuals' practices of dual citizenship (Kivisto and Faist 2007, 12). This lack becomes particularly significant in an era when the quality of citizenship as a source of identity is more contested than ever.…”

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Citizenship on paper or at heart? a closer look into the dual citizenship debate in Europe

Yanaşmayan

2015

Citizenship Studies

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Citizenship on paper or at heart? a closer look into the dual citizenship debate in Europe

Yanaşmayan

2015

Citizenship Studies

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“…Becoming a citizen, or becoming 'one of us', is an inherently political question, while at the same time often practical, emotional, and symbolic. Within the citizenship studies literature, questions of naturalisation are most commonly analysed based on studies of policies (Aptekar 2016;Huddleston and Vink 2015), yet analyses of the reasons given for naturalisation often underscore practical issues such as mobility and a more fundamental desire for security (protection against deportation) (Abascal 2017;Nunn et al 2016;Skulte-Ouaiss 2013). Indeed, despite a burgeoning literature on matters of naturalisation, including on citizenship ceremonies, seen in terms of rituals and experiences (Damsholt 2008), little attention has been given to the passport and individuals' reflections on its role.…”

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‘Birthplace unknown’: on the symbolic value of the passport for identity-construction among naturalised citizens

Erdal

Midtbøen

2021

Identities

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When naturalised citizens receive their passport, it is material and symbolic proof of membership in the nation-state, tying the individual to the nation and providing mobility resources. For naturalised Norwegian citizens, their birthplace appears in the passport. What might be the implications of removing this information? In 2016, the Norwegian government replaced birthplace details with 'birthplace unknown' in the passports of naturalised citizens from 31 Asian and African countries. Drawing on this case and 41 in-depth interviews with people of different citizenship-statuses, we analyse the role of the passport and birthplace information in it for naturalised citizens' identity-construction. The procedural change led to an experience of devalued citizenship in practical, emotional, and symbolic ways, by those directly affected and others, showing the precariousness of identity for naturalised citizens. We find that the passport matters for identity-construction, as a symbol of national belonging, and suggests more-than-instrumental approaches to citizenship among immigrant populations.

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“…The few notable exceptions are investigations of the most common emotion connected to citizenship, "patriotic love", and its opposite -hatred for the enemy of the country, nation or the state (Brown, 2014;Ahmed, 2014;Franz, 2015;Patti and van Zoonen, 2006). Apart from "patriotic love", scholars have also examined the nexus between citizenship and the feelings of fear (Fortier, 2010;Ho, 2009;Isin, 2004;Johnson, 2010), security/safety (Jackson, 2016;Skulte-Ouaiss, 2013;Yuval-Davis, 2006), and shame (Brown, 2014;Aguilar, 1996). This paper contributes to the scholarly debate on how fear constitutes citizenship, as illustrated by return migration to a post-conflict society -Bosnia and Herzegovina.…”

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Facing Fear and Responding with Courage: Understanding How Fear Constitutes the “Emotional Citizenship” of Voluntary Returnees to Bosnia and Herzegovina

Ibričević¹

2019

MET

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This paper examines the case of voluntary return migration to a post-conflict society, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), where the returnee freely chooses to go back despite having a viable alternative of livelihood and a well-integrated social presence abroad. The initial claim of the paper is that the motivation for this type of return is primarily emotional. Although the much researched (Brown, 2014) "patriotic love" is certainly part of returnees' emotional landscape, other emotions play an equal, and sometimes a more important role. Arguing that fear is a key emotion constituting returnees' daily experience of BiH citizenship, the paper identifies three dimensions of fear: ethnic discrimination, economic uncertainty and abuse of political power. Returnees' continued life and work in the home state represent an act of remarkable courage, the success of which does not occur because of the state structure envisioned by the Dayton Peace Agreement (DPA) that comprises the current BiH Constitution, but in spite of the obstacles it creates. The argument is based on a thematic analysis of 35 in-depth interviews conducted with members of the Bosnian and Herzegovinian diaspora/transmigrants, who have voluntarily decided to return and settle in BiH.

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Home is where the heart is; citizenship is where it is safe: dual citizenship and Europe

Cited by 20 publications

References 21 publications

Citizenship on paper or at heart? a closer look into the dual citizenship debate in Europe

Citizenship on paper or at heart? a closer look into the dual citizenship debate in Europe

‘Birthplace unknown’: on the symbolic value of the passport for identity-construction among naturalised citizens

Facing Fear and Responding with Courage: Understanding How Fear Constitutes the “Emotional Citizenship” of Voluntary Returnees to Bosnia and Herzegovina

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