The politics of un-belonging: lessons from Canada’s experiment with citizenship revocation

Normative perspectives on citizenship and migration: the challenge of integration into citizenship in immigration societies

“…In the name of security issues, among others, the enforcement of democratic values (Winter and Previsic, 2019) or the protection of national (liberal) cultures has become a determinant criterion to establish whether immigrants deserve full citizenship. Future citizens must be 'liberal', in the sense of being 'committed to liberal values' (Hampshire, 2011).…”

“…8. Winter and Previsic (2019) shows in their analysis of the Canadian case that references to Muslims dominated public discourses on citizenship revocation. They conclude that the frequent enumeration of Muslim individuals, groups and events in the context of terrorism contributes to the popular suspicion that Canadian Muslims are, at the very least, sympathetic to terrorism and incapable of truly belonging in Canada.…”