Impossible children: illegality and excluded belonging among children of migrants in Sabah, East Malaysia

Allerton, Catherine

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2017.1357464

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“…In contrast, researchers such as Allerton (2014Allerton ( , 2017Allerton ( , 2018 shed light on the entangled statuses of people who are formally excluded but informally included (Allerton, 2018, p. 1092, referring to Mezzadra & Neilson, 2012.…”

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“…Using examples from Sabah in East Malaysia where some migrant worker's children are born in their parent's working city, Allerton demonstrates how illegality is configured and experienced by illustrating the complex, multiply entangled belonging, and exclusion of the migrants' children as "excluded 'inclusion'" (Allerton, 2018(Allerton, , p. 1092.…”

Section: Intersections Between Citizenship Regimes and Local Normsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Despite being excluded from a local nationality, they are simultaneously included both socially and linguistically as residents and workers (Allerton, 2014, p. 28;Allerton, 2018Allerton, , p. 1092. She calls this situation "statelessness on the ground" (Allerton, 2014, p. 2).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…and these complicated criteria are described in various studies (Acciaioli et al, 2017, p. 237;Allerton, 2018Allerton, , p. 1087Choo, 2013, p. 447). Indeed, theories from East and Southeast Asia differ on how "local conceptions of nationhood, citizenship, and belonging strongly influence the treatment within host states and societies" (Willen, 2005, p. 79).…”

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Transnational regimes of labor and statelessness: Intersections of citizenship regimes and local norms in East and Southeast Asia

Ishii

2020

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This article offers a review of the literature on transnational labor regimes and statelessness to pursue further theorization from East and Southeast Asian contexts. The main focus is on how local norms (local sense of belonging, local moral code, and local hierarchies) are entangled with national-level citizenship regimes to legitimate the discrimination of certain people to be statelessness and secure lowwage migrant workers for the new global labor regime. First, traditional literature on citizenship and statelessness was reviewed; binary theoretical frameworks (including citizens/ excluding non-citizens) based on political recognition were indicated as the main limitations. Second, recent theories arguing for an intersection between national citizenship regimes and a new global labor regime were reviewed. Third, recent theories that illuminate the importance of local contexts in determining citizens' rights were reviewed based on formal exclusion and informal inclusion as well as formal inclusion and informal exclusion. Finally, it was concluded that further theorization is needed on how citizenship regimes and local norms intersect to produce statelessness, securing low-wage migrant workers for the global labor regime through the global assemblages approach. Through

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Section: Intersections Between Citizenship Regimes and Local Normsmentioning

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Section: Intersections Between Citizenship Regimes and Local Normsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Intersections Between Citizenship Regimes and Local Normsmentioning

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Transnational regimes of labor and statelessness: Intersections of citizenship regimes and local norms in East and Southeast Asia

Ishii

2020

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“…Minors have been historically considered as both "semi-citizens" dependent on their parents, and as vulnerable subjects in need of protection (Bhabha 2004). This complex social position of dependency and vulnerability mark youth's illegality with experiences of exclusion, but also with partial access to social services and practices of home-making (Allerton 2017).…”

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The Ambivalence of Belonging: The Impact of Illegality on the Social Belonging of Undocumented Youth

Meloni¹

2019

Anthropological Quarterly

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How do undocumented young people establish a sense of belonging when they are afraid to disclose their migratory status? And when they could be separated from the persons they care for? Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Canada, this article explores how illegality shapes youth's belonging. It argues that the experiences of undocumented youth, as well as the attitudes of the state towards them, must be understood as forms of structural ambivalence. On the one hand, I show how marginality is reproduced not only through explicit policies of exclusion (e.g. deportation, surveillance or immigration documents), but also through "institutional invisibility:" laws and practices that are often silent and opaque, rendering people non-existent. On the other, I analyze how youth negotiate such discourses of invisibility by forming a revocable sense of belonging. I suggest that ambivalence is not only produced by the social exclusion of young people. It is also a form of agency which enables youth to endure the risk of deportation, and to detach themselves from the disempowering conditions they are caught in.

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Migrant mothers, rejected refugees and excluded belonging in Hong Kong

Constable

2021

Population Space and Place

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Building on ethnographic research and on studies of noncitizenship, this paper examines 'excluded belonging', a condition that is constructed over time, through a process of interactions between noncitizens and migratory assemblages. Noncitizens respond to the shifting parameters of inclusion and exclusion in their everyday lives in their attempts to construct a substantive sense of belonging that is often fleeting, fragile and ever challenged. Maintaining this condition entails work, learning, struggles and strategising by noncitizens within spaces of exclusion and with institutional actors who deny them rights and also assist them. Ethnographic research in Hong Kong (2010, among women migrant workers whose pathways shift as they become mothers, overstayers, nonrefoulement (asylum) claimants and rejected refugees, illustrates the lived paradox of excluded belonging, as illustrated by the challenges they face in relation to acquiring food, shelter and children's education while facing increasing migratory exclusion and the growing threat of deportation.

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Impossible children: illegality and excluded belonging among children of migrants in Sabah, East Malaysia

Cited by 26 publications

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Transnational regimes of labor and statelessness: Intersections of citizenship regimes and local norms in East and Southeast Asia

Transnational regimes of labor and statelessness: Intersections of citizenship regimes and local norms in East and Southeast Asia

The Ambivalence of Belonging: The Impact of Illegality on the Social Belonging of Undocumented Youth

Migrant mothers, rejected refugees and excluded belonging in Hong Kong

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