Transnationalism, Active Citizenship, and Belonging in Canada

Wong, Lloyd L.

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“…In contrast, Ramakrishnan (2005: 93–94) found that dual nationality increases the likelihood of voting among immigrants (except for Cubans) in the United States. Evidence from Canada also revealed that dual citizenship does not diminish civic participation and the sense of belonging to Canada (Wong, 2008: 87). While dual citizens seem to engage less in political participation, the author points to significant differences between ethnic groups in this respect.…”

Section: Dual Citizenship and Its Consequencesmentioning

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“…However, fears and hopes about dual citizens are often built on speculation. The rare empirical studies on this specific group are inconclusive and often struggle with insufficient data (Cain and Doherty, 2006; Staton et al , 2007a; Wong, 2008; Mügge, 2012). Based on comparative data on dual citizens in Switzerland, we want to make an empirical contribution to the question whether dual citizenship endangers the political integration of dual citizens and their loyalty to the residence country.…”

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Divided loyalty? Identification and political participation of dual citizens in Switzerland

Schlenker

2015

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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In spite of the recent increase in dual citizenship, there are widespread fears that this double status undermines loyalty towards the state, understood as identification with and political participation in the country of residence. We analyze whether there are systematic differences between dual citizens, mono citizens, and foreign residents in this respect, based on data from a 2013 survey of dual citizens in Switzerland with very different migration backgrounds. The results reveal that controlling for migration-related and socio-demographic factors, dual citizens are more loyal in many respects than foreign residents, but there are no significant differences between dual citizens and mono citizens in their level of identification with Switzerland and political participation there. They are even more likely than mono citizens to participate in serving its interests. In addition, there is no trade-off between these forms of loyalty to the country of residence and identification and political participation in the country of descent. On the contrary, they are positively related. Transnational loyalties seem to co-exist or even to be mutually reinforcing. Thus, dual citizenship does not seem to diminish loyalty to the country of residence and countries therefore do not stand to lose anything by allowing it.

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Section: Dual Citizenship and Its Consequencesmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Divided loyalty? Identification and political participation of dual citizens in Switzerland

Schlenker

2015

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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“…Also it is often argued that involvement with the country of origin hinders engagement in the host society. This popular belief is not supported by academic research; ties with the country of origin can be combined with involvement in the host country (Carling, 2008;Marcelli and Lowell, 2005;Portes et al 2002;Snel et al 2006;Wong, 2007).…”

Section: Transnationalism: a Theoretical Framework In Comparative Permentioning

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In Exile and in Touch

Bakker

Engbersen

Dagevos

2014

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Studying transnational behaviour, i.e. interactions between the sending and receiving countries of international migrants, is especially interesting for refugees given their migration motive and history. Due to the flight, resources are lost and returning to the home country is often not an option; both are factors that might limit transnational behaviour. The central aim of this study is to explain the patterns of transnational behaviour for refugee groups in relation to their integration process. For this we use a large scale dataset (N=3950) which contains information on Somali, Iranian, Iraqi and Afghani refugees in the Netherlands. Along the lines of the 'resource dependent' thesis the analyses show that individual capacities, such as employment and Dutch nationality, are of major importance in explaining transnational activities of refugees. Second, this paper shows that the economic and social situation in the origin country should be taken into account for understanding the differences in transnational activities among refugee groups.

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“…If not as a synonym of identity, belonging is used as a synonym of or in association with the notion of citizenship, once again in a more or less explicit way and without any attempt to define in which sense belonging might be different from citizenship (and identity). Examples of this usage equally abound among geographers (Ho 2006, 2009; White and Gilmartin 2008; Winders 2007), sociologists (Clark 2009; McNevin 2006; Wong 2007), anthropologists (Getrich 2008; Rosaldo 1994), political scientists (Clark 2009; Hampshire 2005; Mason 2000; Varsanyi 2005), jurists (Bhabha 1999; Kaplan 1993), and also historians (Fahrmeir and Jones 2008). In other cases again, belonging is evoked in association with both (national) identity and citizenship, without any attempt, once more, to discuss its theoretical or analytical specifics.…”

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Searching for Belonging – An Analytical Framework

2010

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Citation: ANTONSICH, M., 2010. Searching for belonging: an analytical framework. Geography Compass, 4 (6), pp.644-659. Additional Information:• This is the accepted version of the article, which has been published in AbstractBelonging is a notion both vaguely-defined and ill-theorized. Scholars in various social disciplines often take this notion for granted, as if its meaning is somewhat selfexplanatory. Others tend to equate it with the notion of identity, citizenship, or both.By relying on a critical reading of an extensive literature across academic disciplines, this article aims to offer an analytical framework for the study of belonging. I argue that belonging should be analyzed both as a personal, intimate, feeling of being 'at home' in a place (place-belongingness) and as a discursive resource which constructs, claims, justifies, or resists forms of socio-spatial inclusion/exclusion (politics of belonging). The risk of focusing only on one of these two dimensions is to fall in the trap of either a socially de-contextualized individualism or an all-encompassing social(izing) discourse. The open question is whether the increasing cultural and ethnic diversification of contemporary societies can lead to the formation of communities of belonging beyond communities of identity.

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Transnationalism, Active Citizenship, and Belonging in Canada

Abstract: He would like to thank the SSHRC's multiculturalism issues in Canada program's funding support for this research.

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Divided loyalty? Identification and political participation of dual citizens in Switzerland

Divided loyalty? Identification and political participation of dual citizens in Switzerland

In Exile and in Touch

Searching for Belonging – An Analytical Framework

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