Transnational citizenship : political practices of Kurdish migrants’ descendants in France and Germany
Yener-Roderburg, Inci Öykü LU
and Toivanen, Mari
(2024)
In Citizenship Studies
28(3).
p.342-362
- Abstract
Over the last decades, scholars have increasingly called for the ‘deterritorialization’ of the notion of citizenship. The realities concerning citizenship have changed with new expressions of transnationalism. However, whereas the main body of research has focused on the transnational aspects of citizenship among migrants in the form of their transnational political practices and dual nationalities, their descendants have received far less attention. This paper examines the political practices of Kurdish migrants’ descendants in France and Germany and their narratives of identity and citizenship. We employ migrant descendants’ political activism as an empirical entry point to gain insight into the meanings they attach to citizenship.... (More)
Over the last decades, scholars have increasingly called for the ‘deterritorialization’ of the notion of citizenship. The realities concerning citizenship have changed with new expressions of transnationalism. However, whereas the main body of research has focused on the transnational aspects of citizenship among migrants in the form of their transnational political practices and dual nationalities, their descendants have received far less attention. This paper examines the political practices of Kurdish migrants’ descendants in France and Germany and their narratives of identity and citizenship. We employ migrant descendants’ political activism as an empirical entry point to gain insight into the meanings they attach to citizenship. The paper draws from two qualitative datasets collected in France (2015–2017) and Germany (2015–2023) with individuals of Kurdish background, who were born to migrant families arriving from Turkey in the 1980s and 1990s. The findings show that national contexts–both in grandparents’/parents’ country of departure and the country of arrival–and the transnational, diasporic and even supranational space (EU) shape migrant descendants’ political activism, identity construction and consequently resonate in the meanings they attach to citizenship. This study highlights the need to approach migrants’ descendants as transnational citizens in their own right.
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- Yener-Roderburg, Inci Öykü
LU
and Toivanen, Mari
- publishing date
- 2024
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- citizenship, diaspora, France, Germany, identity, Kurdish, migrants’ descendants, political activism, spatiality, transnationalism
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- Citizenship Studies
- volume
- 28
- issue
- 3
- pages
- 21 pages
- publisher
- Taylor & Francis
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- scopus:85200412372
- ISSN
- 1362-1025
- DOI
- 10.1080/13621025.2024.2384369
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- Publisher Copyright: © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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