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Acts of Citizenship

01 Jan 2008-European Journal of Migration and Law (Brill)-Vol. 10, Iss: 4, pp 466-469
About: This article is published in European Journal of Migration and Law.The article was published on 2008-01-01. It has received 129 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Citizenship & Human rights.
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TL;DR: The authors argue that the practices of the biopolitics of citizenship and governmentality (surveillance, immigration documents, employment forms, birth certificates, tax forms, drivers license, credit card applications, bank accounts, medical insurance, car insurance, random detentions, and deportations) close, penetrate, define, limit, and frustrate the lives of undocumented 1.5-generation Latino immigrants.
Abstract: Does the undocumented status of 1.5-generation Latinos (those who migrated at a young age) in the United States affect their political, civic, and public selves? Our approach to this question begins with a theoretical framework based on the concept of abjectivity, which draws together abject status and subjectivity. We argue that the practices of the biopolitics of citizenship and governmentality—surveillance, immigration documents, employment forms, birth certificates, tax forms, drivers’ licenses, credit card applications, bank accounts, medical insurance, car insurance, random detentions, and deportations—enclose, penetrate, define, limit, and frustrate the lives of undocumented 1.5-generation Latino immigrants. We examine data from a random-sample telephone survey of 805 Latinos and 396 whites in Orange County, California, to provide general patterns that distinguish 1.5-generation Latino immigrants from their first-generation counterparts and to suggest the contours of their lives as undocumented imm...

339 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the relevance of the autonomy of migration approach for understanding the role of citizenship in the sovereign control of mobility, and propose an ontology of mobile commons of migration.
Abstract: This paper explores the relevance of the autonomy of migration approach for understanding the role of citizenship in the sovereign control of mobility. There is an insurgent configuration of ordinary experiences of mobility emerging against this regime of control. At its core is the sharing of knowledge and infrastructures of connectivity, affective cooperation, mutual support and care among people on the move. The sovereign regime of mobility control is displaced on the level on which it attempts to take hold: the everyday movements of migrants. The frenetic fixation with security is challenged by the creation of common worlds of existence; the obsession with governance is replaced by inhabiting social spaces below the radar of existing political structures. This paper attempts to contribute to a reconstruction of this mundane ontology of transmigration, an ontology which we will describe as the mobile commons of migration.

305 citations


Cites background from "Acts of Citizenship"

  • ...Crossing Calais can be seen as an ‘act of citizenship’ (Isin and Nielsen 2008) only to the extent that the very moment of hiding in a lorry is an illegalised activity....

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Jef Huysmans1
TL;DR: The main purpose of the article is to begin the framing of a research agenda that asks what political acts can be in diffuse security processes that efface securitizing speech acts.
Abstract: This article makes a claim for re-engaging the concept of 'act' in the study of securitization. While much has been written about the discursive and communicative aspects of securitizing, the concept of 'act' that contains much of the politicality of the speech-act approach to security has been relatively ignored. The task of re-engaging 'acts' is particularly pertinent in the contemporary context, in which politically salient speech acts are heavily displaced by securitizing practices and devices that appear as banal, little security nothings. The main purpose of the article is to begin the framing of a research agenda that asks what political acts can be in diffuse security processes that efface securitizing speech acts.

274 citations


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  • ...There is more to political theory of the act (Isin and Nielsen, 2008; Villa, 1996; Arendt, 1958) and sovereignty (Prokhovnik, 2007; Walker, 2010) than Agamben and Schmitt....

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  • ...Such reengaging will require letting go of the exceptionalist rendition of acts in the securitization approach, however, and developing conceptions of acts that can account for rupture in the diffuse politics of little security nothings....

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  • ...For examples, see Isin and Nielsen (2008); Andrijasevic et al. (2010), Aradau et al. (2010)....

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  • ...Corresponding author: Jef Huysmans Email: j.p.a.huysmans@open.ac.uk...

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TL;DR: The authors argued that the very meaning of the camp also needs to be brought into the analysis of a politics of migration and of control, arguing that spaces of detention are sites of contestation that can be used by migrants and those in solidarity with them as resou...
Abstract: The proliferation of more restrictive border controls governing global mobility provides important sites of crystallization through which differentiated and stratified rights to movement are produced, negotiated, and reimagined. One such form, the detention of migrants, is often understood through a logic of exception as the exclusion of unwanted migrants from the borders of the political community. Critical scholarship on detention informed by an autonomous migration perspective suggests a more nuanced reading of detention as the differential inclusion of migrants through positions of precariousness, transformations of legal statuses and subjectivities, and control over the direction and temporality of migratory flows. Building on this trajectory, this paper argues that the very meaning of the camp also needs to be brought into the analysis of a politics of migration and of control. For spaces of detention are sites of contestation that can be used by migrants (and those in solidarity with them) as resou...

268 citations


Cites background from "Acts of Citizenship"

  • ...In this sense, acts of movement and counteracts of regulation should be understood as ‘acts of citizenship’ (Isin and Nielsen 2008) related to struggles in a politics of location, or what Soguk (2007, p. 291) calls ‘a war of positioning’....

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  • ...Isin and Nielsen (2008) and Nyers (2008) argue that it is through these very types of ‘acts of citizenship’, or performances in which non-citizens make claims to ‘the rights that they do not have’, to paraphrase Rancière (2004), that migrants enact themselves as citizen-subjects....

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the digital and its attendant technologies are constituted by on-going materialist struggles for equality and justice in the Global South and North which are erased in the dominant literature and debates in digital education.
Abstract: In this article, we attempt to define and explore a concept of ‘radical digital citizenship’ and its implications for digital education. We argue that the ‘digital’ and its attendant technologies are constituted by on-going materialist struggles for equality and justice in the Global South and North which are erased in the dominant literature and debates in digital education. We assert the need for politically informed understandings of the digital, technology and citizenship and for a ‘radical digital citizenship’ in which critical social relations with technology are made visible and emancipatory technological practices for social justice are developed.

113 citations