Acts of Citizenship
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...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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...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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...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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