1. Recasting the Social in Citizenship

Isin, Engin F.; Brodie, Janine; Juteau, Danielle

doi:10.3138/9781442688957-003

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“…These alternatives often distinguish “formal” citizenship (status and rights) from “informal” and everyday practices that can transcend status categories and reconstitute the substantive meaning of citizenship. This can occur in quotidian social interactions and identity negotiations that become a micro‐politics of daily life (Isin and Turner ; Isin ). It can also occur across geographies, from neighborhood and urban to rescaled transnational or diasporic citizenships.…”

Section: Advancing the Field: From Cultural And Performative Citizensmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding Membership in a World of Global Migration: (How) Does Citizenship Matter?

Bloemraad

Sheares

2017

International Migration Review

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This article synthesizes the literature on citizenship and immigration to evaluate the heft of citizenship and theorize why it matters. We examine why citizenship laws vary cross‐nationally and why some immigrants acquire citizenship while others do not. We consider how citizenship influences rights, identities, and participation and the mechanisms by which citizenship could influence lives. We consider frameworks, such as cultural and performative citizenship, that de‐center legal status and the nation‐state. Ultimately, we argue for a claims‐making approach to citizenship, one that is a relational process of recognition, includes actors outside the individual/state dyad, and focuses on claims to legitimate membership.

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Section: Advancing the Field: From Cultural And Performative Citizensmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding Membership in a World of Global Migration: (How) Does Citizenship Matter?

Bloemraad

Sheares

2017

International Migration Review

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“…In his classical essay 'Citizenship and social class', T. H. Marshall (1950Marshall ( [1938Marshall ( ][1938) regarded the provision of and access to healthcare, education and housing as social citizenship, which enabled members of a political community (for Marshall, it was the national welfare state) to become healthy, educated citizens who could enact their political and civic citizenship in a meaningful way. As Isin et al (2008) argue, Marshall saw social citizenship as subordinated to civic and political citizenship. However, we share Isin's view that citizenship 'is social before it is civic or political' (ibid., 283) because incorporation and governing via education, health care or other resources happens via many interfaces, not just the nation state (Trouillot 2001).…”

Section: Bringing Together Citizenship and The Bodymentioning

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Claiming citizenship rights through the body multiple

Netz

Lempp

Krause

et al. 2019

Citizenship Studies

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What have affirmative action policies, categorization of care needs, plastic surgery, forensic identification of dead bodies and age assessments of refugees in common? They all determine recognition and access to resources and rights via the body. In the introduction to this special issue, the editors emphasize that the body only becomes distinct and significant when it is put in relation to historically and geographically differing norms and standards. This relational approach opens up the 'black boxes' of science, medicine, bureaucracy and eventually the body. Drawing on practice theory, critical citizenship studies and Science and Technology Studies, the authors discuss notions of social citizenship and the conceptualization of biological citizenship in medical anthropology. They think with the contributions of the special issue that analyse how medical practitioners, state and private institutions, as well as individuals enact certain bodies in specific material and discursive constellations. By taking neither citizenship nor the body for granted, the special issue shows how situationally-bound elements in relations, space and time, matter for a person's access to rights and resourcesand hence can draw attention to blind spots in particular categorization practices. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…Social citizenship thereby provides a conceptual ground for a non‐essentialist politics of need (Fraser, ; Soper, ); an understanding of citizenship which, contrary to conventional theory (Marshall, ), does not limp along in the wake of civil and political citizenship, but necessarily precedes it (cf. Isin, Brodie, Juteau, & Stasiulis, ). The article concludes by reflecting on the idea of global social citizenship.…”

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“…This requires not only an appreciation of the diversity of forms that social citizenship may take, but also a more encompassing definition: a post‐Marshallian concept of citizenship that is truly social; that centres on negotiation around human needs and social rights and which is not necessarily subservient to frameworks for constitutional civil and political order; that accepts with Isin et al. (, p. 285) that perhaps ‘citizenship is social before it is civil or political’. Conceived in this way, social citizenship is constituted through the realities of human interdependency; it is a quotidian human practice that preceded and now transcends the invention of the city and the nation state; it can encompass a politics of need, rather than a politics of civil order; it reflects the manner in which we frame our claims on others and recognise the claims they make on us as social rights.…”

Section: Social Citizenship As a Multidimensional Conceptmentioning

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The translation of needs into rights: Reconceptualising social citizenship as a global phenomenon

Dean

2013

Int J Soc Welfare

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The article proceeds from the contention that rights are socially constructed; that social rights are constructed through the naming and claiming of needs; and that social citizenship provides the context for the realisation of such rights. It is argued that needs precede rights, but both are framed within two intersecting dimensions: sociality (the competing meanings that attach to social interdependency) and negotiation (the dynamics of the claiming process). From this premise, the article advances a post‐Marshallian concept of citizenship that is truly social; that may be constituted in a variety of modes and at a variety of sites at the points at which competing understandings of needs and rights collide; that may transcend territorial boundaries; that may be shaped by a spectrum of means, ranging from local customs to international covenants; that may be centred on a politics of need as the process whereby needs are translated into rights.

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1. Recasting the Social in Citizenship

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Understanding Membership in a World of Global Migration: (How) Does Citizenship Matter?

Understanding Membership in a World of Global Migration: (How) Does Citizenship Matter?

Claiming citizenship rights through the body multiple

The translation of needs into rights: Reconceptualising social citizenship as a global phenomenon

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