The Repositioning of Citizenship: Emergent Subjects and Spaces for Politics

Sassen, Saskia

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“…We referred to Sassen (2002Sassen ( , 2003aSassen ( , 2003b, who mainly argues that present-day citizenship manifests itself in diverse places and in a multitude of practices. In line with this, it seemed relevant to question our taken-for-granted ways of 'looking' at practices of citizenship and community building.…”

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“…In line with this, we consider citizenship as a place-making practice and look at this double process of gathering and embodied engaging within the three photos. We became increasingly convinced of the relevance of this new approach, because in present-day society citizenship manifests itself in a wide range of practices and in diverse places, locally, nationally and supra-nationally (Sassen, 2002(Sassen, , 2003a(Sassen, , 2003b. This persuaded us to pay more attention to citizenship in connection with places, bodies and things, and to how these are positioned in relation to each other.…”

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“…The urban strategy in Les Mureaux thus discloses its flip side: the process of withdrawal from 1. My analytical approach diverges from those that set out to demonstrate, through a micro-sociological study, the variety of practices of engagement and their liberating potential in the public arena (Borzeix et al 2006;Marlière 2005), and also from academic discussions that examine systems of civic engagement for the limits and contradictions of systems of national representations with regard to evolutions in civic and social engagements on the supranational and local level (Sassen 2002(Sassen : 5 & 2006Balibar 2010;Scott Wallach 2010).…”

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Regimes of Hospitality : Urban Citizenship between Participation and Securitization – the Case of the Multiethnic French Banlieue

Foultier¹

2015

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This thesis analyzes various local development policies in Europe’s big urban areas. Striving to understand the respective places accorded to the measures to increase the participation of the inhabitants on the one hand, and to improve for security and public peace in the context of social and territorial policies on the other, I examine how urban policies define models of urban citizenship. The empirical work concerns two sites in the greater metropolitan area of Paris, Le Franc-Moisin–Bel-Air in Saint-Denis and Les Cinq Quartiers in Les Mureaux. It consists of an analysis of public documents as well as a series of interviews and observations. This methodological approach serves to gain an understanding of how participative and security procedures emerge in the history of French urban policy and how these norms interact locally. By investigating the overlap of security politics and participatory devices, I demonstrate that deprived areas do not have access to an adequate form of intervention to meet the expectations and needs of its inhabitants, who are squeezed between a logic of development reluctantly accepted by, but rarely negotiated with its inhabitants, and a logic of security that often leads to the confinement of residents to their respective areas. The thesis thus demonstrates how institutional interventions in multiethnic areas can fuel feelings of suspicion be-tween local stakeholders and civic distrust. Indeed, the participatory procedures that are developed in urban strategies influence the conduct of participants on matters of identity and belonging and can intensify socio-ethnic stigmatization. This effect provides me with a critical standpoint on new techniques of government. The local partners of the state develop daily routines in urban strategies that contribute to articulating participatory devices and security procedures. I claim that the results from this process are “regimes of hospitality”

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“…(Anonymous interviewee, 2009) Writing in response to the atrocities of World War II, Hannah Arendt (1948Arendt ( /2004 spoke of the stark nakedness that results when one is no longer recognized as a member of any political community: "The Rights of Man, supposedly inalienable, proved to be unenforceable … whenever people appeared who were no longer citizens of any sovereign state" (p. 372). Although some contest the importance of citizenship in this post-national era (Benhabib, 2004;Ong, 2006;Sassen, 2003;Soysal, 1998), the enjoyment of basic rights is often very difficult to achieve unless one is a citizen of somewhere. Children, who are often deemed "citizens-in-themaking" or not fully citizens because they cannot yet fulfil the traditional citizenship duties of voting or running for office, are often in a particularly vulnerable position when it comes to making demands for the fulfilment of their basic rights.…”

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Arendt’s Children in the Bahamian Context: The Children of Migrants Without Status

Belton¹

2010

Int. j. Bahamian stud.

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In this increasingly globalized world, with hundreds of millions of people living outside the country of their birth, and States guarding their sovereign right to control membership ever more closely, the number of children without secure citizenship status is on the rise. This article is a case study of noncitizen children in The Bahamas, focusing specifically on children born of Haitian parents without status, "Arendt's children". It examines how The Bahamas, a State party to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), fails to consider adequately the best interests of the Bahamian-born non-citizen child in its laws and policies. It analyses how The Bahamas' ratification of relevant human rights treaties translates into practice at the domestic level and concludes with an examination of ways in which Arendt's children might be integrated into the Bahamian polity.

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