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The American Passport in Turkey - National Citizenship in the Age of Transnationalism (Hardcover)
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The American Passport in Turkey - National Citizenship in the Age of Transnationalism (Hardcover)
Series: Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism
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An ethnographic exploration of the meaning of national citizenship
in the context of globalization The American Passport in Turkey
explores the diverse meanings and values that people outside of the
United States attribute to U.S. citizenship, specifically those who
possess or seek to obtain U.S. citizenship while residing in
Turkey. OEzlem Altan-Olcay and Evren Balta interviewed more than
one hundred individuals and families and, through their narratives,
shed light on how U.S. citizenship is imagined, experienced, and
practiced in a setting where everyday life is marked by numerous
uncertainties and unequal opportunities. When a Turkish mother
wants to protect her daughter's modern, secular upbringing through
U.S. citizenship, U.S. citizenship, for her, is a form of insurance
for her daughter given Turkey's unknown political future. When a
Turkish-American citizen describes how he can make a credible claim
of national belonging because he returned to Turkey yet can also
claim a cosmopolitan Western identity because of his U.S.
citizenship, he represents the popular identification of the West
with the United States. And when a natural-born U.S. citizen
describes with enthusiasm the upward mobility she has experienced
since moving to Turkey, she reveals how the status of U.S.
citizenship and "Americanness" become valuable assets outside of
the States. Offering a corrective to citizenship studies where
discussions of inequality are largely limited to domestic frames,
Altan-Olcay and Balta argue that the relationship between
inequality and citizenship regimes can only be fully understood if
considered transnationally. Additionally, The American Passport in
Turkey demonstrates that U.S. global power not only reveals itself
in terms of foreign policy but also manifests in the active desires
people have for U.S. citizenship, even when they do not intend to
live in the United States. These citizens, according to the
authors, create a new kind of empire with borders and citizen-state
relations that do not map onto recognizable political territories.
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