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Abstract
Transnational lived citizenship has gained prominence as a means to analyse mobility and foreground activist notions of citizenship over legal status. I argue that lived citizenship and transnational movements are strongly intertwined with aspirations and belonging. I use the material example of labour market integration as the space of enactments of citizenship and analyse the patterns of belonging those create and contest. I develop my argument through the empirical example of labour market integration of refugees in Germany. I demonstrate how such integration transforms social, and more importantly, economic location and in turn creates complex and often contradictory forms of transnational allegiances. I ultimately argue that lived citizenship can in important ways advance aspirations of refugees and migrants. At the same time, transnational lives and multiple allegiances are often hindered by state-based citizenship and the rights this confers. Legal status thus remains an important marker of citizenship.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 5-19 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs |
Volume | 22 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2022 |
Keywords
- Citizenship
- aspirations
- belonging
- labour market integration
- refugees
- transnational lived citizenship
- Germany
Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms
- Global Development Institute
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Moving the goalposts of citizenship? German business sector engagement and refugee integration
Müller, T. (PI)
1/12/18 → 31/12/21
Project: Research
Research output
- 1 Article
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Corporate sector engagement in contemporary ‘crises’: The case of refugee integration in Germany
Müller, T. R., 19 May 2023, In: Disasters. 47, 4, p. 972-994 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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