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‘I’m Local and Foreign’: Belonging, the City and the Case for Denizenship

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posted on 2023-08-30, 14:23 authored by James Rosbrook-Thompson
Those considering threats to the liberal-democratic model of citizenship which emanate ‘from below’ have naturally focused on migrants’ sentiments of belonging and the meaning they ascribe to citizenship – or substantive citizenship. Using the findings of two years’ ethnographic fieldwork, the article explores the modes of belonging of a group of first-, second- and third-generation migrants in central London. It is argued that a substantive notion of ‘denizenship’ united these individuals – whether they were citizens or denizens (resident non-citizens) in the formal sense – a mindset characterised by a rejection of nationhood and involving either a renouncement or a refusal of citizenship and its attendant duties and obligations

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Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

52

Issue number

9

Page range

1615-1630

Publication title

Urban Studies

ISSN

1360-063X

Publisher

SAGE

File version

  • Accepted version

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2016-09-07

Legacy creation date

2016-08-25

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Faculty of Arts, Law & Social Sciences (until September 2018)

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