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

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  • James Rosbrook-Thompson

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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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  • James Rosbrook-Thompson, 2015. "‘I’m local and foreign’: Belonging, the city and the case for denizenship," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 52(9), pages 1615-1630, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:52:y:2015:i:9:p:1615-1630
    DOI: 10.1177/0042098014540347
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