Reflections on the Good Citizen

Brace, Laura

doi:10.1057/9781137435088_2

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“…Furthermore, this culturalisation of citizenship also fits in a long tradition of debates about ‘the good citizen’ and their manifestations in legislation as ways to regulate access to the community of citizens. According to Brace (2015), nation-states have a history of denying full citizenship not only to immigrants but also to other groups not considered to have the independence of thought and ‘moral fibre’ to act as responsible members of society, such as woman, children, slaves and people of a different race. Elaborating on the notion of ‘the good citizen’, Anderson (2013, p. 3) introduces the term ‘community of value’, which she describes as an imagined community composed of ‘good citizens, law abiding and hard-working members of stable and respectable families’.…”

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Immigrants, inclusion, and the role of hard work: Exploring anti-immigrant attitudes among young people in Britain

Keating

Janmaat

2020

The Sociological Review

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Previous research on youth attitudes towards immigration has tended to focus on explaining why young people are more accepting of immigrants than their elders. In this article, therefore, we focus on the young people that are opposed to immigration. First, we use nationally representative survey data from young adults in England to highlight that a substantial minority hold negative attitudes towards immigrants. In the second half of the article, we then turn to qualitative data (in-depth interviews) to explore how young people talk about and justify holding these negative attitudes. Both the qualitative and the quantitative data suggest that anti-immigrant attitudes among young people are linked to the perception that immigrants pose an economic and cultural threat, and to the spread of culturalised forms of citizenship. What the qualitative data also reveal, however, is how these distinct discourses reinforce one another and how they intersect with other types of prejudice. We will argue that the idea of Hard Work is central to understanding anti-immigrant attitudes, as this has become a deeply-embedded cultural norm that is being used to include and exclude (immigrants and others), and to distinguish between who is deserving of membership of British society and who is not.

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Immigrants, inclusion, and the role of hard work: Exploring anti-immigrant attitudes among young people in Britain

Keating

Janmaat

2020

The Sociological Review

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“…According to Wright (2015), the meaning of individual and social connections, relations and affiliations needs to be respected in order to gain a proper understanding of a sense of belonging. Consequently, belonging can be constructed positively or negatively in consistency with an individual’s role in the market, job or property ownership, irrespective of state intervention (Brace, 2015). In summary, a sense of belonging in a global sense is conceived as one’s location in the social world and as an interactive and relational experience in everyday practice (Warming and Fahnoe, 2017; Yuval-Davis et al, 2005).…”

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“…In the global realm, social work knowledge is indeed encouraged to take into account historical, political, socio-economic, cultural, context-specific and indigenous local knowledge in the development of a socially just agenda and identity (Jones and Truell, 2012). Our contribution shows the vital necessity of grappling with the sense of belonging of ger residents, seeking indigenous knowledge from ger residents themselves while being embedded in the grassroots social relations and formal and informal practices and interactions of ger residents (Brace, 2015). The sense of belonging of ger residents in their pre-migration period has a spatial connotation, when they have a strong connection with their birth territory and rely on a collectivist mutual support tradition.…”

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Shifting senses of solidarity and belonging in the internal migration pathways of citizens in ger areas in Ulaanbaatar: A social work perspective

Terbish

Lietaert

Roets

2020

International Social Work

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Mongolia has witnessed an ongoing internal rural–urban migration and urbanization process in recent decades, resulting in families settling informally in suburban ‘ ger’ areas and in areas with concentrations of social and environmental problems in the city of Ulaanbaatar. In social policy and social work practice in Mongolia, there is a critical lack of understanding and information regarding the experience of ger residents in shaping their lives. This article explores and examines evolving meanings and mechanisms of solidarity and senses of belonging in ger residents’ internal migration pathways. It aims to contribute to a deeper understanding that may assist social work practice and policy to embrace ger residents’ strengths and capability to aspire.

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“…A good example of how social policies operate as a means to achieving an outcome valued by policymakers is the focus on social investment in contemporary welfare states (Morel et al, 2012;Morel and Palme, 2017). Currently, most European welfare states operate from the assumption that individuals of working age are 'good citizens' (Brace, 2015) when they are productive members of a society, i.e. through labour force participation.…”

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Rethinking social policy from a capability perspective

Yerkes¹,

Javornik²,

Kurowská³

2019

Social Policy and the Capability Approach

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In this chapter, we discuss the key challenges and issues related to interpreting basic concepts of the capability approach (CA) in a social policy context. We start by briefly introducing the CA, tracing the idea of capabilities back to the writings of Aristotle and interpreting them in the context of Sen's capability approach. We then discuss the theoretical and empirical debates surrounding the CA as it was further developed by Nussbaum and later interpreted by other scholars such as Robeyns. The focus here is on the main conceptual and empirical debates in relation to social policy research and practice, centred on the key concepts in Sen's approach to capabilities: means, capabilities, functionings, conversion factors, and agency. Multiple interpretations of these concepts create difficulties in applying the CA to social policy research. This chapter offers a way forward in addressing these issues as they apply specifically to social policy research and practice.

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Reflections on the Good Citizen

Cited by 6 publications

References 28 publications

Immigrants, inclusion, and the role of hard work: Exploring anti-immigrant attitudes among young people in Britain

Immigrants, inclusion, and the role of hard work: Exploring anti-immigrant attitudes among young people in Britain

Shifting senses of solidarity and belonging in the internal migration pathways of citizens in ger areas in Ulaanbaatar: A social work perspective

Rethinking social policy from a capability perspective

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