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

• Autores: James Rosbrook-Thompson
• Localización: Urban Studies, ISSN-e 1360-063X, Vol. 52, Nº. 9, 2015, págs. 1615-1630
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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.