Simply a matter of compliance with the rules? The moralising and responsibilising function of fraud-based citizenship deprivation in France and the UK

Fargues, Émilien

doi:10.1080/13621025.2019.1616451

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“…Very interestingly, the cultural and ethical thickening of citizenship is not unique to revocation for anti-terrorist purposes. This is the key point made by Fargues (2019): such a process has proven to be so prevalent that it occurs even in revocation measures based on fraud grounds that appears highly procedural, i.e. culturally and ethically neutral, at least at first glance.…”

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“…Promoted by public authorities as a means to ensure the primary good of security and to fight against Islamist terrorism, citizenship revocation appears to be both 'exceptional' and 'pragmatic' since it is part and parcel of the discourse and practice of an emergency regime in search of effective and lasting solutions. It is worth taking some distance from this 'framework of exception, suggesting a practice reserved for the most dangerous and undesirable of citizens' (Troy 2019, 304) and of political pragmatism (Fargues 2019;Boekestein and de Groot 2019), as all the papers collected in this special issue invite us to do. Based on a variety of combined approacheslegal, political, sociological and historicaland of case studies -Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands, the United-Kingdomthey all highlight the depoliticisation process of the narrative of emergency policies and, more specifically, of counter-terrorism which is used in support of denationalisation measures.…”

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“…Operating in the name of national security, such process makes it difficult or illegitimate to debate citizenship revocation as a matter of political choices among different visions of justice. With a view to unveiling what is obscured by these depoliticising effects, the papers in this volume explore the historical continuity and socio-political frames underpinning what is investigated here as the 'revival' (Fargues 2019;Winter and Previsic 2019) of citizenship revocation.…”

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Citizenship revocation: a stress test for liberal democracy

Pélabay

Sénac

2019

Citizenship Studies

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On the basis of the case studies collected in this special issue, the paper analyses what is philosophically at stake in public discourses and policies about citizenship revocation, and why the latter cur-rently acts as a borderline case with regard to liberal democracy. Firstly, we ask whether, beyond an intensification of internal ten-sions, the destabilizing effects attached to the revival of citizenship revocation conjure up dilemmas which imply a possible exit from liberal democracy or, at least, a decoupling between liberalism and democracy. Investigating this possible shift from tensions to dilem-mas, we underline that the liberal dimension of citizenship, based on individual rights, has lost importance in setting out the condi-tions of access to the political 'us'. Conversely, both the republican and communitarian claims, based on civic virtue and collective identity, respectively, have gained prominence and have con-verged on a primary interest for a 'thick' common bond. Finally, we examine two specific issues of key interest in understanding how citizenship revocation puts liberal democracy to the test: the challenge to cosmopolitanism as posed by the return of patrio-tism, andthe state promotion of shared values as a means to secure national identity, thus expressing an ethicisation-cum-ethnicisation of citizenship.

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Citizenship revocation: a stress test for liberal democracy

Pélabay

Sénac

2019

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Earned Citizenship

Joppke¹

2021

Arch. eur. sociol.

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This paper argues that conceptualizing Western state citizenship from the vantage point of advancing liberalism is insufficient. Instead, recently restrictive trends may be summarized under the umbrella of earned citizenship. Conceived of as privilege not right, this is a citizenship that is simultaneously more difficult to get and easier to lose, and it inheres elements of neoliberalism and of nationalism in tandem. One could even call it an instance of neoliberal nationalism, which is neither ethnic nor civic but including on the basis of merit and desert. The rise of earned citizenship is a convergent trend across Western Europe and the classic immigrant nations of North America and Australia.

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Circles of alienation: examining first-hand experiences of citizenship deprivation through the perspective of emotions and estrangement

Birkvad

2023

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Simply a matter of compliance with the rules? The moralising and responsibilising function of fraud-based citizenship deprivation in France and the UK

Cited by 6 publications

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Citizenship revocation: a stress test for liberal democracy

Citizenship revocation: a stress test for liberal democracy

Earned Citizenship

Circles of alienation: examining first-hand experiences of citizenship deprivation through the perspective of emotions and estrangement

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