Campzenship: reimagining the camp as a social and political space

Sigona, Nando

doi:10.1080/13621025.2014.937643

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“…A cheek by jowl 'campzenship' (Sigona, 2015) has emerged in the increasingly overcrowded encampment. This has fostered political solidarity and togetherness, but also created tension.…”

Section: Notes From the 'New Jungle' In Calaismentioning

confidence: 99%

Geography, migration and abandonment in the Calais refugee camp

Davies

Isakjee

2015

Political Geography

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“…A cheek by jowl 'campzenship' (Sigona, 2015) has emerged in the increasingly overcrowded encampment. This has fostered political solidarity and togetherness, but also created tension.…”

Section: Notes From the 'New Jungle' In Calaismentioning

confidence: 99%

Geography, migration and abandonment in the Calais refugee camp

Davies

Isakjee

2015

Political Geography

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“…This mirrors recent developments in the extensive literature on camps. Recent contributions to this literature have stressed that the camp is often not just a state of exception which strips camp residents of the right to have rights-as argued in influential analyses by Agamben and others (Agamben, 1998;Minca, 2015)-but frame the camp differently as a space of emerging new political subjectivities which can also open up limited access to citizenship dimensions (Maestri, 2017;Sigona, 2015). Our research, however, does not focus solely on the camp but on the possibilities and restrictions related to leaving the camp.…”

Section: Autonomy Of Migration Differential Inclusion and Civic Strmentioning

confidence: 99%

Refugees’ Access to Housing and Residency in German Cities: Internal Border Regimes and Their Local Variations

El-Kayed

Hamann

2018

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This article examines how state regulations, market barriers, racist discrimination as well as NGOs interact and create internal border regimes by enabling, as well as restricting, access to social and civil rights connected to housing and the freedom of movement and settlement for refugees. Our contribution builds on an analysis of federal and state regulations on housing for refugees who are either in the process of seeking asylum or have completed the process and have been granted an asylum status in Germany. The analysis aims to dissect the workings of these regulations in order to develop a detailed understanding of how these internal border regimes define barriers and access to social and civil rights. In addition to legal and regulatory barriers at the federal, state, and local levels, we identify several other barriers that affect if, how, and when refugees are able to enter local housing markets. We will examine these barriers based on an exemplary analysis of the situation in the cities of Berlin and Dresden, whereby we will apply concepts from border as well as citizenship studies to obtain a deeper understanding of the processes at hand. While contributions to the realm of border studies have so far mostly concentrated on national or EU borders, our approach follows recent literature that emphasises the need to analyse the workings of borders internal to nation-states but has so far not addressed local variations of the ways in which refugees are able to access their right to housing. In taking up this approach, we also stress the need to look at local dimensions of an increasing civic stratification of refugee rights, which past research has also conceptualised primarily on the national level. In both cities, we have collected administrative documents and conducted interviews with refugees, NGOs, and representatives from the local administration. Based on this material, we analyse the workings of administrative barriers at the state and local levels along with market barriers and discriminatory practices employed by landlords and housing companies at the local level. In most cases, these conditions restrict refugees' access to housing. We will contrast these obstacles with insight into the strategies pursued by refugees and volunteers in their efforts to find a place to live in the city.

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“…Theorists focus on the absence of the legal status of citizenship and its attendant rights without considering the highly differentiated experiences of noncitizenship and the complex ways in which the three dimensions of citizenship (legal, political and identity) interact to construct the exclusion of different categories of noncitizens. Work is needed to examine the relationship between rights and belonging when there are multiple sources of identity and membership (Quiroz Becerra 2014;Tonkiss 2013;Yuval-Davis 2007), and multiple forms of political participation unrelated to citizenship (Nair 2012;Rigby and Schlembach 2013;Sigona 2015).…”

Section: The Citizen-noncitizen Binarymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Emerging sociological and cultural studies have begun to embrace the challenge of understanding what it is to be a noncitizen and the role of noncitizenship in contemporary societies as a topic in itself, not contingent on citizenship (e.g. Golding and Landolt 2013;Nair 2012;Rigby and Schlembach 2013;Sigona 2015); however, this development has not been mirrored in political theory. As a result, normative theorising -and particularly that which is concerned with justice and rights -tends to be dominated by (a) the core concept of citizenship, and (b) a definition of noncitizenship as simply the negation of citizenship.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%