Migrant protests as acts of cosmopolitan citizenship

Cărăuş, Tamara

doi:10.1080/13621025.2018.1530194

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“…My conceptual counter-map thus counters citizenship in two ways; it inverts what are considered the acts, performances, or interventions of citizenship away from migrants' struggles against mobility control (see Ataç, Rygiel, and Stierl, 2016;Caraus, 2018;Lewicki, 2017;McNevin, 2012;Nyers, 2015;Nyers and Rygiel, 2012;V. Squire, 2017;Swerts, 2017b) to place this label firmly onto state repression, while at the same time sketching a different political approach to migrant solidarity based in a prefigurative method of anti-citizenship.…”

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“…1-2). Examples of the various articulations of the 'new' citizenship forms produced by migrant struggles are 'cosmopolitan citizenship' (Caraus, 2018), 'citizenship from below' (Nyers and Rygiel, 2012, p. 9), 'migrant citizenships' (Nyers, 2015), and 'illegal citizenship' (Rigo, 2011) among others. These studies convincingly argue that migrant struggles 'demonstrate citizenship is not only a technology of governance, exclusion, and differentiation.…”

Section: Migrant Struggles As 'Acts Of Citizenship'mentioning

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Counter-mapping citizenship: bordering through domicide in Calais, France

Isacker¹

2020

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This thesis analyses how anti-migrant domicide functions as a technology of citizenship in Calais, France. Evictions, destructions, and securitisations exclude 'non-citizen' migrants from this border city, defining those allowed to exist within it as citizens by contrast. They also destroy the physical infrastructures, social communities, and political solidarities facilitating migrants' irregular journeys to the UK. Thus, the erasure of irregular migrants' autonomous home-spaces reproduces citizenship while reasserting it as the determinant of who can freely exist in, or move beyond, Calais. However, anti-migrant domicide also produces unconventional citizenships beyond nationality or status. The thesis analyses two examples---environmental and humanitarian citizenship---to show how citizen communities in Calais can reconfigure themselves around alternative, nominally more inclusive, sets of values while continuing to exclude irregular migrants. In these cases citizens define themselves either against migrants who are perceived as failing to fulfil citizenship's substantive criteria, or through migrants who are the object of citizen-defining humanitarian or environmentalist performances. While not immediately excluded by their status, migrants 'non-citizens' because of their racialisation in Calais' racist environment and how this has been compounded by the effects of domicide against them.Counter-mapping in this project takes three different forms: cartographic, presenting a map of domicide between 2009-19; narrative, elaborating descriptions of select case studies in Calais' anti-migrant domicidal history; and conceptual, demonstrating how citizenship is produced by these exclusionary spatial interventions. These three modes are combined to map how migrants' spatial exclusion from Calais' 'spaces of citizenship' and their socio-political exclusion reciprocally reinforce one-another.While countering progressive conceptions of citizenship by showing how all citizenship forms analysed in Calais are constituted through migrants' exclusion, the thesis raises questions for the continued invocation of citizenship politics in scholarly analyses of resistance to the border regime. It also argues for the need to (re)create spaces of anti-citizenship as part of struggles for free movement for all. These spaces prefigure coalitional relations beyond citizenship categories, and provide toe-holds from which to resist their institutionalisation in bordering technologies.

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Section: Migrant Struggles As 'Acts Of Citizenship'mentioning

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Counter-mapping citizenship: bordering through domicide in Calais, France

Isacker¹

2020

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“…Both are addressed in special issues in citizenship studies, where the contributors elaborate on the transnational character of migrants' acts and contribute to what postcolonial scholarship defines as 'intercultural translation' between migrants and non-migrants (Santos 2014(Santos , 2018. The activist role of migrants has been further analyzed in relation to the exposure of neoliberal working regime (Oliveri 2012) and to the construction of a cosmopolitan citizenship (Caraus 2018;Topak 2017). As a result of this rethinking, citizenship has been reconsidered as a space of struggle and negotiation for social and political change.…”

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Technologies, infrastructures and migrations: material citizenship politics

Amelung

Gianolla

Solovova

et al. 2020

Citizenship Studies

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This article aims to explore the multiple uses and consequences of different technologies and infrastructures in the context of migrations and how such uses and consequences inhabit and transform migrants' rights and subjectivities. It reviews relevant literature at the intersection of citizenship, critical migration studies and science and technology studies (STS), focusing in particular on the current debates underway within critical citizenship studies that examine how technologies and infrastructures shape the ability to acts of citizenship. By mobilizing insights from STS, we focus on how these political subjectivities are shaped by certain sociomaterial and epistemic practices. By introducing the notion of material citizenship politics, the article outlines a way to differentiate three different constitutive forms between technologies, infrastructures and citizenship in migrations. Technologies and infrastructures can (1) constrain acts of citizenship in migration and border regimes; (2) constitute contestation and participation over citizenship; or (3) enable and shape alternative acts of citizenship in migration and border regimes. As it provides a theoretical background to the special issue, the article also serves as the introduction to the issue.

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“…Here lived citizenship is what people experience and practice as part of their everyday living, personally as well as in groups and movements, including more and less intentional civic activities. These 'alternative citizenships' identify a broad spectrum of political realities and agencies in the relational world, including claims to citizenship when people lack status, rights, and access to civic practices (McNevin 2006;Walters 2008;Caraus 2018). In sharp contrast to status-based citizenship, lived citizenship is about people's daily, mundane lives and how 'the political' is worked within informal and domestic spaces (Dickenson 2008 Together these changing perspectives have called forth re-conceptualizations of civic engagement and action, with a growing stream of work coalescing around the notion of lived citizenship.…”

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Lived citizenship: conceptualising an emerging field

Kallio¹,

Wood²,

Häkli³

2020

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© 2020, © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Lived citizenship has emerged as a key concept in citizenship studies over the last two decades. A growing number of authors have applied ideas of lived citizenship as a generative approach to recognise the embodied, relational and lived experiences of being a citizen in everyday life. However, lived citizenship currently lacks conceptual clarity and framing which weakens its analytical power and potential. In this paper we consider the theoretical origins, current applications and development of lived citizenship in order to clarify it as a concept and consider possibilities for its future. We propose a conceptual framing underpinned by four dimensions of lived citizenship (spatial, intersubjective, performed and affective) to serve as a starting point to sharpen and define this emerging field. We then explore these dimensions through three domains of scholarship, of children and youth, asylum seekers, and city-regional dwellers to illustrate the potential of a lived citizenship approach. We conclude by examining some of the implications of this concept as well as its limitations, with the aim of opening a dialogue with inter-disciplinary scholars to help us to further conceptualise this emerging field and widen its future possibilities.

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Migrant protests as acts of cosmopolitan citizenship

Cited by 27 publications

References 49 publications

Counter-mapping citizenship: bordering through domicide in Calais, France

Counter-mapping citizenship: bordering through domicide in Calais, France

Technologies, infrastructures and migrations: material citizenship politics

Lived citizenship: conceptualising an emerging field

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