Citizenship and Belonging
The relationship between mobility, citizenship and the numerous ways in which people ‘belong’ forms the basis of all work within this cluster.
Citizenship is a legal status giving a right to enter, remain and not be deported from a state. It describes a relation to a state and to other citizens. Citizenship also indicates a subjective feeling of identity, and social relations of belonging to a ‘nation’ to a state and to a community. Increasing mobility and shifts in relations between states are opening up new spaces of contestation around migration and membership and between migration, legal status and rights. This research cluster addresses the (in)congruencies between citizenship and belonging and between nation and state, and addresses the consequences in theory and in practice.
Further details on the issues addressed by this cluster can be found in the Cluster Overview
Citizenship and Belonging - Current Research Projects
- Early Legal Advice for Protection Applicants
- Imagined Immigration: The Different Meanings of "Immigrants" in Public Opinion and Policy Debates in Britain
- Migration in the Media and Public Opinion in Britain
- Migration Observatory Scotland Project
- Signals from the majority – paradoxes of integration
- Tried and Trusted? A project on Assisted Voluntary Return
- Us and Them? The dangerous politics of immigration controls
- Testing for Deliberation
Other activities
- Migration, Time and Temporalities: Review and Prospect, Melanie Griffiths, Ali Rogers, Bridget Anderson (2012). Bibliography, Methodology and Workshop Report
- Immigration and Criminality - Seminar Series and follow-on workshop, Winter 2011
- 'Citizenship and its others'- Symposium and Public Lecture, March 2012
- 'Why No Borders?' Refuge Special Issue, Bridget Anderson, Nandita Sharma and Cynthia Wright, No. 2, Vol 26 - Download .pdf
- COMPAS Podcasts: University of Oxford feed; iTunesU
Previous Projects
- Immigration Attitudes in British Electoral Politics
- Citizenship and Integration
- Expulsion, Membership and Political Community: Historical and Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives
- Changing status, changing lives? The socio-economic impact of EU accession on low wage migrant labour in the UK
- Forced Labour in the UK
- Fundamental rights situation of irregular immigrants in the European Union
- Network of Cities for Local Integration Policy (CLIP)
- Political Engagements of Latin American Immigrants in the UK
- Police cooperation in internal enforcement of immigration control - Germany, United Kingdom and the United States of America
Linked Work
- The Economics and Politics of Migrant Rights (Labour cluster project)
- Migration and the Marketisation of Social Care: The Employment of Migrant Workers under Cash-for-Care Schemes in the UK (Labour cluster project)
- The Health Status of Migrants and Access to Health Care in the UK (Welfare cluster project)
- Undocumented Migrant Children in the UK (Welfare cluster project)
