Multicultural Citizenship

Multiculturalism beyond citizenship: The inclusion of non-citizens

“…However, it is clear that residents of a territory should minimally be protected from arbitrary exercises of power including cultural domination, and that the needs of non-citizens do not necessitate the same responses called for by marginalised citizens such as language and territorial rights and do not therefore warrant citizenship if we understand it as awarding individuals a ‘full’ package of substantive rights. Moreover, proposals that call for extending citizenship to all migrants (Walzer, 1983: 57–60) presuppose only one kind of migration that has permanent residence as its aim, neglecting those who have no wish to stay in the host country and risk reproducing a hierarchy of rights-claimants based on the very condition of citizenship (Teo, 2019: 257). As such, an ‘unbundling’ of rights is not the same as, or an alternative to, the acquisition of formal citizenship (Benhabib, 2004: 173).…”

“…With this caveat, I argue that underlying objectives and principles of multiculturalism can be extrapolated to further justify the extension of cultural rights for non-citizens in a territory. While I have expanded on other terms of multiculturalism(s) elsewhere (Teo, 2019), I outline two components that I take as existing prior to, and beyond, citizenship within the framework of multiculturalism: the ontological value of culture, and the redress of cultural and structural misrecognition.…”

“… 8 I recognise that there are degrees of power and, by extension, misrecognition, among non-citizens, which I have addressed this in a longer exposition of ‘multicultural denizenship’ (Teo, 2019). For the purpose of my argument here, which centres on challenging citizenship as the only criteria for multicultural recognition, I address citizenship as a formal status and non-citizenship as the lack thereof.…”

The centre for the study of ethnicity and citizenship: Multiculturalism, racialisation, religion and national identity twenty years on

“…Others focus on whether the policies that minorities advocate and the type of politics that minorities engage in are normatively defensible (Modood, 2013 [2007]; Uberoi, 2018). Yet other scholars track the evolution of policy changes (Meer and Modood, 2009; Uberoi and Modood, 2013; Uberoi; 2009; 2016) or explanatory frameworks for studying integration (Charsley et al, 2017; Teo, 2019). 1 Yet others consider the normative significance of religion and of different relationships between religion and the state (Modood, 2019; Modood and Thompson, 2021).…”