Citizenship deservingness justifies exclusive national boundary making: A socio‐dynamic mixed‐methods approach to social representations of citizenship

Politi, Emanuele; Sarrasin, Oriane; Staerklé, Christian

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“…The valued citizen is the homo oeconomicus (Brown, 2015) and individual economic value comes first and foremost over any other. More attention is thus needed to the role of laws in pushing this view of the self and its consequences to society (Anderson & Gibson, 2020;Langhout & Fernández, 2018;Politi et al, 2023;Santos et al, 2023). This is a consideration that not only needs to be integrated in the social psychology of citizenship but also in the social psychology of migration (Verkuyten, 2018), which has charged integration with culture-specific concerns only (but see Guerra et al, 2016).…”

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Shaping citizenship: Dynamic relations between the reified and the consensual universes in defining the “good foreign resident”

Santos,

Castro

2023

J. Soc. Polit. Psych.

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A social and political psychology of citizenship can be furthered by the analysis of the values and representations through which citizenship is constructed in the text of laws and reconstructed during implementation and how these (re)constructions best serve some groups. This article views laws as facts from the reified/institutional universe whose texts operate a simplification process by prioritizing certain values from the plurality existent in the consensual universe and sees institutions in charge of law implementation as mediating systems operating re-complexification processes. Using this perspective, it (1) explores how the values and social representations prioritized in Portuguese foreign residency laws exclude/include certain groups and define rights and duties of “the good foreign resident/citizen”; (2) illustrates with interviews with experts from a mediating system (n = 6) the re-complexification of the laws in implementation. It highlights how the “worthiness” of foreign residents in Portugal depends upon three central values (work, study, and investment) keeping, however, some ambiguity of these values in the legal texts. Interviews illustrate how mediating systems re-signify the laws, amplifying the ambiguities by resorting to other values and representations. We discuss how the analysis of the dynamic relation between the reified and the consensual universes contributes to a better understanding of how macro-level factors interact with everyday citizenship.

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Shaping citizenship: Dynamic relations between the reified and the consensual universes in defining the “good foreign resident”

Santos,

Castro

2023

J. Soc. Polit. Psych.

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Social identity complexity decreases exclusion of immigrants by reducing the glorification dimension of national identification

Sekerdej,

Kołeczek,

Rupar

et al. 2024

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

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The aim of this research was to investigate interrelationships among social identity complexity, national glorification, and exclusion of immigrants, conceptualized as relational exclusivity. The concept of relational exclusivity reflects the conditions newcomers are expected to meet in order to be welcomed and allowed to settle in the host country. The findings across four studies (three correlational and one experimental; total N = 2,002) consistently indicated that complex identity is negatively, whereas glorification is positively, associated with relational exclusivity. Furthermore, in all studies, we consistently demonstrated that the relationship between social identity complexity and relational exclusivity is mediated by reduced glorification. Consequently, the findings suggest that social identity complexity has the capacity to reduce national glorification and, subsequently, indirectly reduce the exclusion of immigrants.

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Citizenship deservingness justifies exclusive national boundary making: A socio‐dynamic mixed‐methods approach to social representations of citizenship

Cited by 2 publications

References 120 publications

Shaping citizenship: Dynamic relations between the reified and the consensual universes in defining the “good foreign resident”

Shaping citizenship: Dynamic relations between the reified and the consensual universes in defining the “good foreign resident”

Social identity complexity decreases exclusion of immigrants by reducing the glorification dimension of national identification

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