Offshore Citizens

Lori, Noora

doi:10.1017/9781108632560

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“…This practical impossibility of obtaining citizenship has invited scrutiny of the structural economic and political exclusion of vast segments of Gulf populations (e.g., Dito, 2015;Lori, 2019). But for scholars of the rentier state, it is a predictable consequence of the Gulf's enduring political-economic model, wherein autocratic rulers distribute a sufficient portion of resource wealth to citizens to buy political autonomy (Luciani and Beblawi, 1987;Hertog, 2010).…”

Section: Gulf Immigration and Citizenshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sharing citizenship: economic competition, cultural threat, and immigration preferences in the rentier state

Shockley

Gengler

2023

PSRM

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This paper proposes a framework of immigrant acceptance that accounts for both group-level and individual-level characteristics and conducts a novel test of the cultural threat hypothesis. Immigrants’ individual traits are conceptualized as secondary to their identity-based claims. The empirical strategy leverages a set of survey experiments conducted in the extreme rentier state of Qatar, where naturalization poses tangible negative financial consequences for citizens by expanding the pool of government welfare beneficiaries. Findings demonstrate that citizens are willing to share citizenship with a narrow ethnic in-group while individual cultural and economic attributes are lower-order determinants influencing economically vulnerable citizens. Importantly, answers to direct survey measures are at odds with these findings, demonstrating their susceptibility to social desirability bias.

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Section: Gulf Immigration and Citizenshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sharing citizenship: economic competition, cultural threat, and immigration preferences in the rentier state

Shockley

Gengler

2023

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“…Although Gulf migration policies have allowed some categories of foreigners to settle and to bring their families along (by way of 'family visas' or 'dependent residence permits'), the majority of migrants are still considered to be expendable, and hence, their legal status remains precarious. The transient nature of migrants' presence in the Gulf has been studied in recent urban ethnographies (Elsheshtawy, 2019;Lori, 2019). Scholars have shown that legal statuses, which discriminate between migrants and hierarchise regimes of residence, have materialised through and been further compounded by spatial segregation in the urban built environment (Dresch, 2006;Elsheshtawy, 2010).…”

Section: Segregated Cosmopolitanism: Everyday Practices In Urban Spmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cosmopolitanism in exclusionary contexts

Thiollet

Assaf

2020

Population Space and Place

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While over time mass migration has brought about de facto cosmopolitan situations in Gulf cities, foreign residents continue to experience segregation and endure exclusionary policies and practices on a daily basis. This article unpacks two sets of internal tensions that characterise cosmopolitanism in the Gulf, through a comparison of cosmopolitan discourses and practices in Abu Dhabi, Riyadh and Jeddah. The first tension relates to official discourses and policies: Saudi and Emirati governments design and enforce exclusionary policies, and, at the same time, publicly endorse cosmopolitan ideals and projects-consisting in Islamic universalism for Saudi cities, and the rhetoric of tolerance for the UAE. Such cosmopolitan claims are, moreover, reflected in the aspirations and subjectivities of migrants and local citizens, while also generating feelings of alienation. We call this discursive paradox "cosmopolitanism in denial." The second tension concerns migrants' everyday practices and modes of consumption in urban spaces. We argue that these are best understood as a form of segregated cosmopolitanism, whereby both Gulf citizens and the various migrant communities explicitly acknowledge, and at times consume, urban diversity, but also maintain certain boundaries. Drawing on an analysis of both governmental and individual discourses, as well as on ethnographic observations collected over a decade of fieldwork in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, our research engages with theories of cosmopolitanism from a situated perspective. As such, it moves away from the dominant unitary and normative approach to cosmopolitanism, and instead emphasises both the resilience and transience of everyday cosmopolitan situations.

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“…Such experiences include temporary forms of protection or residence that last decades or, as in the case of UAE, are turned into permanent legal status. This is then codified into formal citizenship status by outsourcing passports from the Union of Comoros, thus allowing the state to effectively reclassify minorities into foreign residents (Lori 2019). More could, and perhaps should, be said on the assessment of free choice and responsibility when it comes to unlawful presence in the territory; here it is enough to stress that no necessary conceptual link exists between unlawful presence and choosing to cross the border, and this suffices to call for a reconsideration of the category of illegal migrants against the backdrop of the principle of personal responsibility.…”

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Towards a Theory of Arbitrary Law-making in Migration Policy

Mindus

2020

Etikk Praksis - Nord J Appl Ethics

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The article considers what arbitrary law-making is and what may count as arbitrary law-making in the field of migration policy. It contributes to the discussion of arbitrary law-making in relation to migration policy in two ways. First, it offers an analysis of arbitrariness, pointing out that rhetorical definitions abound – perhaps not surprisingly, given that migration is a highly-contested policy area – and argues for why transposing a conception developed in ethical theory to the law has high theoretical costs. An alternative conception is described and found to be better equipped to deal with arbitrary law-making in migration policy. It is argued that if we want to understand how arbitrariness plays out in the field of migration law – which is necessary to find ways to hinder its spread by the adoption of specific law-making practices – we first need to distinguish arbitrariness from legitimate choices of legislators. Secondly, a typology of forms of arbitrariness is fleshed out in relation to contemporary migration policy. The policy area is here broadly construed to include not only naturalisation processes, but also migration, asylum and refugee policies and more generally border control. The examples are taken from a broad selection of countries. They have been chosen for illustrative purposes only. Keywords: arbitrariness, discretion, arbitrary power, forms of arbitrary power, borders, migration policy, citizenship policy

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Offshore Citizens

Cited by 70 publications

References 106 publications

Sharing citizenship: economic competition, cultural threat, and immigration preferences in the rentier state

Sharing citizenship: economic competition, cultural threat, and immigration preferences in the rentier state

Cosmopolitanism in exclusionary contexts

Towards a Theory of Arbitrary Law-making in Migration Policy

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