The repositioning of citizenship and alienage: Emergent subjects and spaces for politics∗

Sassen, Saskia

doi:10.1080/14747730500085114

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“…The free movement of persons is now a fundamental right guaranteed to EU citizens, capturing perhaps the separation of citizenship from the nation state, as denoted in terms such as 'post-national citizenship' (Sassen, 2006). However, the eradication of internal borders has come at a price as the security around external borders has increased.…”

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Addressing the ‘Citizenship Assumption’ in Critical Pedagogy: Exploring the Case of Rejected Female Sub-Saharan African Asylum Seekers in Malta

Pisani

2012

Power and Education

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The degree to which an individual can or cannot confront domination is determined by his or her place within the social relations of production, the hegemony of ideological beliefs, including patriarchy and other cultural constructions, and institutional rules, regulations, and practices. These interactions are also shaped by the ways in which members of specific social groups understand, perceive, and act in, through, and on, their reality. This article considers the Maltese context, and the case of sub-Saharan African (SSA) female asylum seekers whose request for asylum has been rejected. The article aims to provoke a critical re-evaluation of the adult education and critical pedagogy literature, and calls for an epistemological shift in the way we theorise the non-citizen within the nation state. The article argues that the 'rejected' status limits the possibilities to speak unto power and to mobilise for transformative change. It concludes that a 'statist' hegemony is ubiquitous within critical pedagogy literature, wherein 'citizenship' is assumed.

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Section: The Right To Rights?mentioning

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Addressing the ‘Citizenship Assumption’ in Critical Pedagogy: Exploring the Case of Rejected Female Sub-Saharan African Asylum Seekers in Malta

Pisani

2012

Power and Education

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“…These diverse perspectives on the intersection of citizenship, safety, and belonging demonstrate the ambivalent relationship between formal state citizenship and other more quotidian and affective modes of national belonging, which may be attained without citizenship, or withheld despite it (Gow 2005;Sassen 2003). This supports findings from previous studies of people from migrant and refugee backgrounds (c.f.…”

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“…Lange et al 2007;Gow 2005), and on forms of post-, supra-and transnational citizenship (c.f. Strumia 2013;Sassen 2003;Soysal 1994). These have been productive developments for engaging with the dynamic and multidimensional nature of citizenship, yet there are attendant risks.…”

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Mobility and security: the perceived benefits of citizenship for resettled young people from refugee backgrounds

Nunn

McMichael

Gifford

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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…It is often argued that membership or access to rights and practices is increasingly detached from formal national citizenship status, resulting in forms of post-or denationalised membership forms based in globalisation processes such as human rights (Soysal, 1994) as well as in-often local-practices and actors that realise aspects of membership that divert from the concept of state membership (Sassen, 2005). While it is true that in many countries, social rights (rights to economic welfare) and civil rights (rights of individual freedom, cf.…”

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Refugees’ Access to Housing and Residency in German Cities: Internal Border Regimes and Their Local Variations

El-Kayed

Hamann

2018

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This article examines how state regulations, market barriers, racist discrimination as well as NGOs interact and create internal border regimes by enabling, as well as restricting, access to social and civil rights connected to housing and the freedom of movement and settlement for refugees. Our contribution builds on an analysis of federal and state regulations on housing for refugees who are either in the process of seeking asylum or have completed the process and have been granted an asylum status in Germany. The analysis aims to dissect the workings of these regulations in order to develop a detailed understanding of how these internal border regimes define barriers and access to social and civil rights. In addition to legal and regulatory barriers at the federal, state, and local levels, we identify several other barriers that affect if, how, and when refugees are able to enter local housing markets. We will examine these barriers based on an exemplary analysis of the situation in the cities of Berlin and Dresden, whereby we will apply concepts from border as well as citizenship studies to obtain a deeper understanding of the processes at hand. While contributions to the realm of border studies have so far mostly concentrated on national or EU borders, our approach follows recent literature that emphasises the need to analyse the workings of borders internal to nation-states but has so far not addressed local variations of the ways in which refugees are able to access their right to housing. In taking up this approach, we also stress the need to look at local dimensions of an increasing civic stratification of refugee rights, which past research has also conceptualised primarily on the national level. In both cities, we have collected administrative documents and conducted interviews with refugees, NGOs, and representatives from the local administration. Based on this material, we analyse the workings of administrative barriers at the state and local levels along with market barriers and discriminatory practices employed by landlords and housing companies at the local level. In most cases, these conditions restrict refugees' access to housing. We will contrast these obstacles with insight into the strategies pursued by refugees and volunteers in their efforts to find a place to live in the city.

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The repositioning of citizenship and alienage: Emergent subjects and spaces for politics∗

Abstract: To cite this Article Sassen, Saskia(2005) 'The repositioning of citizenship and alienage: Emergent subjects and spaces for politics', Globalizations, 2: 1, 79 -94 To link to this Article:

Cited by 112 publications

References 10 publications

Addressing the ‘Citizenship Assumption’ in Critical Pedagogy: Exploring the Case of Rejected Female Sub-Saharan African Asylum Seekers in Malta

Addressing the ‘Citizenship Assumption’ in Critical Pedagogy: Exploring the Case of Rejected Female Sub-Saharan African Asylum Seekers in Malta

Mobility and security: the perceived benefits of citizenship for resettled young people from refugee backgrounds

Refugees’ Access to Housing and Residency in German Cities: Internal Border Regimes and Their Local Variations

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