‘I’m local and foreign’: Belonging, the city and the case for denizenship

James Rosbrook-Thompson

Urban Studies, 2015, vol. 52, issue 9, 1615-1630

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: belonging; citizenship; denizenship; liberalism; urban sociology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098014540347

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