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
Other activites
- Seminar Series and follow-on workshop on Immigration and Criminality
- 'Citizenship and its others'
- No Borders Special Issue
Previous Projects
- 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)
