Journal•ISSN: 1362-1025
Citizenship Studies
Taylor & Francis
About: Citizenship Studies is an academic journal published by Taylor & Francis. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Citizenship & Politics. It has an ISSN identifier of 1362-1025. Over the lifetime, 1192 publications have been published receiving 33271 citations.
Topics: Citizenship, Politics, State (polity), Democracy, Human rights
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TL;DR: Citizenship has been described as a "momentum concept" as mentioned in this paper, and has been defined as "a way of expressing universalist principles that can be applied to people living in poverty".
Abstract: Citizenship has been described as a “momentum concept”. One important development over the past decade has been the various ways in which scholars and activists have developed citizenship's inclusionary potential. The first part of the article explores these developments in general terms with regard to the values underpinning inclusive citizenship; the implications of the notion of cultural citizenship; and the theorization of differentiated forms of citizenship, which nevertheless appeal to universalist principles. These principles provide the basis for the citizenship claims of people living in poverty, a group largely ignored in citizenship studies. Other lacunae have been disability and, until recently, childhood. The second part of the article discusses how citizenship studies has reworked the concept in a more inclusionary direction through the development of a multi-tiered analysis, which pays attention to the spaces and places in which lived citizenship is practised. It focuses in particular on th...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors take stock of our editorial collaboration in the past decade and outline those ideas that we find most promising and approaches that are most fruitful in investigating citizenship, and offer it as an agenda; not so much a dogmatic sequence of principles as an ethos toward conceiving democratic citizenship as a cosmopolitan virtue.
Abstract: This essay takes stock of our editorial collaboration in the past decade and outlines those ideas that we find most promising and approaches that are most fruitful in investigating citizenship. We offer it as an agenda; not so much a dogmatic sequence of principles as an ethos toward conceiving democratic citizenship as a cosmopolitan virtue. We propose a cosmopolitan mobility tax and a cosmopolitan goods and services tax to illustrate how that cosmopolitan virtue must find a practical expression.
389 citations
TL;DR: The authors analyzes the institutionalized production of precarious migration status in Canada and finds that elements of Canadian policy routinely generate pathways to multiple forms of precarious status, which is accompanied by precarious access to public services.
Abstract: This paper analyzes the institutionalized production of precarious migration status in Canada. Building on recent work on the legal production of illegality and non-dichotomous approaches to migratory status, we review Canadian immigration and refugee policy, and analyze pathways to loss of migratory status and the implications of less than full status for access to social services. In Canada, policies provide various avenues of authorized entry, but some entrants lose work and/or residence authorization and end up with variable forms of less-than-full immigration status. We argue that binary conceptions of migration status (legal/illegal) do not reflect this context, and advocate the use of ‘precarious status’ to capture variable forms of irregular status and illegality, including documented illegality. We find that elements of Canadian policy routinely generate pathways to multiple forms of precarious status, which is accompanied by precarious access to public services. Our analysis of the production of...
382 citations
TL;DR: In a spirit of stocktaking and identifying frontiers of research, this article reviewed recent changes of citizenship in three dimensions: status, rights, and identity, and argued that access to citizenship has been liberalized.
Abstract: In a spirit of stocktaking and identifying frontiers of research, this article reviews recent changes of citizenship in three dimensions: status, rights, and identity. With respect to status, it is argued that access to citizenship has been liberalized. On the rights dimension, there has been a weakening of social rights and rise of minority rights. Citizenship identities today are universalistic, which limits states' attempts to counter the centrifugal dynamics of ethnically diversifying societies with unity and integration campaigns.
365 citations
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TL;DR: The rise of the neurotic subject has been discussed in this paper, where the authors argue that the rational subject has itself been predicated upon and accompanied by another subject: the neuroptic subject, which is the object of various governmental projects whose conduct is based not merely on calculating rationalities but also arises from and responds to fears, anxieties and insecurities.
Abstract: Over the last three decades we have witnessed the birth of a subject that has constituted the foundations of a regime change in state societies: the neoliberal subject. As much as neoliberalism came to mean the withdrawal of the state from certain arenas, the decline of social citizenship, privatization, downloading, and so forth, it also meant, if not predicated upon, the production of an image of the subject as sufficient, calculating, responsible, autonomous, and unencumbered. While the latter point has been a topic of debate concerning the rational subject, I wish to argue that the rational subject has itself been predicated upon and accompanied by another subject: the neurotic subject. More recently, it is this neurotic subject that has become the object of various governmental projects whose conduct is based not merely on calculating rationalities but also arises from and responds to fears, anxieties and insecurities, which I consider as ‘governing through neurosis’. The rise of the neurotic citizen...
353 citations