We the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship

Taaffe, Thomas; Stanley, Flavia

doi:10.1525/jsae.2005.5.1.23

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“…On the one hand, it is crucial to problematise the points where the political and subjective spheres do (or fail to) intersect. As Balibar (2004) stressed, transnational citizenship within Europe occurs but is far from being self-evident. This present study questions whether the shift from the subjective to the political and institutional levels is made possible merely through the flexibility of lexis or whether an aesthetic dimension, which begs the question of the meaning of 'belonging', is involved (Varoufakis, 2015).…”

Section: Literature Review: Resilience In the Age Of Global Precaritymentioning

confidence: 99%

From ‘Expats’ to ‘Migrants’: strategies of resilience among French movers in post-Brexit Manchester

Brahic

Lallement

2020

Migration and Development

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As European citizens residing in the United Kingdom, French nationals enjoy rights of free movement and settlement in their host country, which enables and eases life across borders. In addition to minimal migratory restrictions offered by the European Union to its citizens, the majority of French nationals living in the United Kingdom have a positive and privileged experience as 'movers', feeling welcome and valued in their country of residence. The onset of the Brexit process poses a threat to the rights of free movements for EU citizens and marks the advent of an 'openly admitted' antimigration climate in the United Kingdom; both have direct implications for movers to the United Kingdom. Based on a series of participant observations and semi-structured interviews, this article explores the reactions, responses and strategies displayed and formulated by French movers in the wake of the Brexit process. This paper participates to the exploration of the complex interactions between the global and the local, the political and the personal. The present study endeavoured to question the meaning of the concept of resilience and the realities it assumes for this once relatively privileged group of movers confronted to sudden and unexpected political change threatening their cross-border lives.

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Section: Literature Review: Resilience In the Age Of Global Precaritymentioning

confidence: 99%

From ‘Expats’ to ‘Migrants’: strategies of resilience among French movers in post-Brexit Manchester

Brahic

Lallement

2020

Migration and Development

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“…Jean Beaman has worked with the idea of cultural citizenship mainly in France, a state which boasts of having "invented" citizenship, but is in fact traversed by deep racial inequalities due to colonization (Beaman, 2016). It is a context that has also been analyzed by Étienne Balibar (2003) and that has a reflection in diverse moments in the riots and conflicts of the French large cities known as banlieus. Their thoughts have proved that it is not nationality which guarantees inclusion, but assimilation.…”

Section: Citizenship and Belongingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…citizens. These technologies have consolidated what Balibar has called "European apartheid" (Balibar, 2003). In opposition to this, the different theories around transnational citizenship have evolved through and with diverse forms of social and political struggles.…”

Section: Citizenship and Belongingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction: Against citizenship: Visual belongings and transnational affects

Camps

López

2023

Cultural Dynamics

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This special issue “Against Citizenship: Visual belongings and transnational affects” gathers contributions that address the affective and transnational networks that position themselves against or confront the “fantasy” of an egalitarian citizenship, understanding that this notion is not only intrinsically segregating, but aleatory and artificial, in the same way that the creation and existence of states are. The framework of the issue is the possibility given by cultural practices to articulate and perform post-national, denationalized or transnational forms of citizenship in a world characterized by globalization, post-colonial societies and migratory movements. Through these cultural practices a variety of political communities try to solve the restrictions that the State imposes to differentiated types of citizenship or even to cross its limits, be them geographical or juridical, and a create a different sense of belonging and recognition. The struggles for the rights around intersections, such as race, gender or disability, that are fundamental to the internal exclusion of the “citizens” of a state, are key in questioning the political debt that citizenship has with its supposed cultural homogeneity, as post-colonial countries have experienced in the last years. In this sense, notions such as identity, belonging and affect motivate the needs and roadmaps of communities excluded from citizenship, but seeking precisely to provide radically opposite definitions and possibilities which guarantee the attenuation of vulnerability and, above all, the right to be, live and exist.

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“…Thus, we argue what is needed in the migration literature is to rethink the concepts in order to move beyond the Western Eurocentric perspectives. It is indeed questionable how such a dominating perspective found a firm grounding of justification and a widespread acceptance when Europe itself and its anthropology was and is stilland rightly soa contested constellation (Balibar, 2002(Balibar, , 2003De Genova, 2014;Dzenovska, 2013). Thus, the cluster of articles in this issue consist a strategic beginning to de-territorialize the Westphalian nation-state system in order to bring a non-European perspective to the mode of study.…”

Section: Introduction: Eurocentrism and The Field Of Migration Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

EU migration legacies - perspectives from sending countries

Vollmer

Sert

İçduygu

2015

Migration and Development

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We the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship

Abstract: We the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship. Etienne Balibar. Princeton University Press: Princeton, New Jersey, 2004. ISBN: 0691089906 (paper) and 0691089892 (cloth)

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From ‘Expats’ to ‘Migrants’: strategies of resilience among French movers in post-Brexit Manchester

From ‘Expats’ to ‘Migrants’: strategies of resilience among French movers in post-Brexit Manchester

Introduction: Against citizenship: Visual belongings and transnational affects

EU migration legacies - perspectives from sending countries

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