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The intensity of feeling that multiculturalism invariably ignites
is considered in this timely analysis of how the 'New Britain' of
the twenty-first century is variously re-imagined as multicultural.
Introducing the concept of 'multicultural intimacies', Anne-Marie
Fortier offers a new form of critical engagement with the cultural
politics of multiculturalism, one that attends to ideals of mixing,
loving thy neighbour and feelings for the nation. In the first
study of its kind, Fortier considers the anxieties, desires, and
issues that form representations of 'multicultural Britain'
available in the British public domain. She investigates: the
significance of gender, sex, generations and kinship, as well as
race and ethnicity, in debates about cultural difference the
consolidation of religion as a marker of absolute difference 'moral
racism', the criteria for good citizenship and the limits of
civility. This book presents a unique analysis of multiculturalism
that draws on insights from critical race studies, feminist and
queer studies, postcolonialism and psychoanalysis.
Uncertainty is central to the governance of citizenship, but in
ways that erase, even deny, this uncertainty. This book
investigates uncertain citizenship from the unique vantage point of
'citizenisation': twenty-first-century integration and
naturalisation measures that make and unmake citizens and migrants,
while indefinitely holding many applicants for citizenship in what
Fortier calls the 'waiting room of citizenship'. Fortier's
distinctive theory of citizenisation foregrounds how the full
achievement of citizenship is a promise that is always deferred: if
migrants and citizens are continuously citizenised, so too are they
migratised. Citizenisation and migratisation are intimately linked
within the structures of racial governmentality that enables the
citizenship of racially minoritised citizens to be questioned and
that casts them as perpetual migrants. Drawing on multi-sited
fieldwork with migrants applying for citizenship or settlement and
with intermediaries of the state tasked with implementing
citizenisation measures and policies, Fortier brings life to the
waiting room of citizenship, giving rich empirical backing to her
original theoretical claims. Scrutinising life in the waiting room
enables Fortier to analyse how citizenship takes place, takes time
and takes hold in ways that conform, exceed, and confound frames of
reference laid out in both citizenisation policies and
taken-for-granted understandings of 'the citizen' and 'the
migrant'. Uncertain Citizenship's nuanced account of the social and
institutional function of citizenisation and migratisation offers
its readers a grasp of the array of racial inequalities that
citizenisation produces and reproduces, while providing theoretical
and empirical tools to address these inequalities. -- .
The intensity of feeling that multiculturalism invariably ignites
is considered in this timely analysis of how the 'New Britain' of
the twenty-first century is variously re-imagined as multicultural.
Introducing the concept of 'multicultural intimacies', Anne-Marie
Fortier offers a new form of critical engagement with the cultural
politics of multiculturalism, one that attends to ideals of mixing,
loving thy neighbour and feelings for the nation. In the first
study of its kind, Fortier considers the anxieties, desires, and
issues that form representations of 'multicultural Britain'
available in the British public domain. She investigates: the
significance of gender, sex, generations and kinship, as well as
race and ethnicity, in debates about cultural difference the
consolidation of religion as a marker of absolute difference 'moral
racism', the criteria for good citizenship and the limits of
civility. This book presents a unique analysis of multiculturalism
that draws on insights from critical race studies, feminist and
queer studies, postcolonialism and psychoanalysis.
New forms of transnational mobility and diasporic belonging have
become emblematic of a supposed 'global' condition of uprootedness.
Yet much recent theorizing of our so-called 'postmodern' life
emphasizes movement and fluidity without interrogating who and what
is 'on the move'. This original and timely book examines the
interdependence of mobility and belonging by considering how homes
are formed in relationship to movement. It suggests that movement
does not only happen when one leaves home, and that homes are not
always fixed in a single location. Home and belonging may involve
attachment and movement, fixation and loss, and the transgression
and enforcement of boundaries. What is the relationship between
leaving home and the imagining of home itself? And having left
home, what might it mean to return? How can we re-think what it
means to be grounded, or to stay put? Who moves and who stays? What
interaction is there between those who stay and those who arrive
and leave? Focusing on differences of race, gender, class and
sexuality, the contributors reveal how the movements of bodies and
communities are intrinsic to the making of homes, nations,
identities and boundaries. They reflect on the different
experiences of being at home, leaving home, and going home. They
also explore ways in which attachment to place and locality can be
secured - as well as challenged - through the movements that make
up our dwelling places.Uprootings/Regroundings: Questions of Home
and Migration is a groundbreaking exploration of the parallel and
entwined meanings of home and migration. Contributors draw on
feminist and postcolonial theory to explore topics including Irish,
Palestinian, and indigenous attachments to 'soils of significance';
the making of and trafficking across European borders; the female
body as a symbol of home or nation; and the shifting grounds of
'queer' migrations and 'creole' identities.This innovative analysis
will open up avenues of research an
New forms of transnational mobility and diasporic belonging have
become emblematic of a supposed 'global' condition of uprootedness.
Yet much recent theorizing of our so-called 'postmodern' life
emphasizes movement and fluidity without interrogating who and what
is 'on the move'. This original and timely book examines the
interdependence of mobility and belonging by considering how homes
are formed in relationship to movement. It suggests that movement
does not only happen when one leaves home, and that homes are not
always fixed in a single location. Home and belonging may involve
attachment and movement, fixation and loss, and the transgression
and enforcement of boundaries. What is the relationship between
leaving home and the imagining of home itself? And having left
home, what might it mean to return? How can we re-think what it
means to be grounded, or to stay put? Who moves and who stays? What
interaction is there between those who stay and those who arrive
and leave? Focusing on differences of race, gender, class and
sexuality, the contributors reveal how the movements of bodies and
communities are intrinsic to the making of homes, nations,
identities and boundaries. They reflect on the different
experiences of being at home, leaving home, and going home. They
also explore ways in which attachment to place and locality can be
secured - as well as challenged - through the movements that make
up our dwelling places.Uprootings/Regroundings: Questions of Home
and Migration is a groundbreaking exploration of the parallel and
entwined meanings of home and migration. Contributors draw on
feminist and postcolonial theory to explore topics including Irish,
Palestinian, and indigenous attachments to 'soils of significance';
the making of and trafficking across European borders; the female
body as a symbol of home or nation; and the shifting grounds of
'queer' migrations and 'creole' identities.This innovative analysis
will open up avenues of research an
This book traces the formation of Italian migrant belongings in
Britain, and scrutinizes the identity narratives through which they
are stabilized. A key theme of this study is the constitution of
identity through both movement and attachment. The study follows
the Italian identity project since 1975, when community leaders
first raised concerns about 'the future of invisible immigrants'.
The author uses the image of 'invisible immigrants' as the starting
point of her inquiry, for it captures the ambivalent position
Italians occupy within the British political and social landscape.
As a cultural minority absorbed within the white European majority,
their project is steeped in the ideal of visibility that relies on
various 'displays of presence'. Drawing on a wide range of
material, from historical narratives, to political debates,
processions, religious rituals, activities of the Women's Club, war
remembrances, card games, and beauty contests, the author explores
the notion of migrant belongings in relation to performative acts
that produce what they claim to be reproducing. She reveals how
these acts work upon the historical and cultural environment to
re-member localized terrains of migrant belongings, while they
simultaneously manufacture gendered, generational and ethnicized
subjects. Located at the crossroads of cultural studies, 'diaspora'
studies, and feminist/queer theory, this book is distinctive in
connecting an empirical study with wider theoretical debates on
identity. Nominated for the Philip Abrams Memorial Book Prize 2001.
This book traces the formation of Italian migrant belongings in
Britain, and scrutinizes the identity narratives through which they
are stabilized. A key theme of this study is the constitution of
identity through both movement and attachment.
The study follows the Italian identity project since 1975, when
community leaders first raised concerns about 'the future of
invisible immigrants'. The author uses the image of 'invisible
immigrants' as the starting point of her inquiry, for it captures
the ambivalent position Italians occupy within the British
political and social landscape. As a cultural minority absorbed
within the white European majority, their project is steeped in the
ideal of visibility that relies on various 'displays of presence'.
Drawing on a wide range of material, from historical narratives, to
political debates, processions, religious rituals, activities of
the Women's Club, war remembrances, card games, and beauty
contests, the author explores the notion of migrant belongings in
relation to performative acts that produce what they claim to be
reproducing. She reveals how these acts work upon the historical
and cultural environment to re-member localized terrains of migrant
belongings, while they simultaneously manufacture gendered,
generational and ethnicized subjects.
Located at the crossroads of cultural studies, 'diaspora' studies,
and feminist/queer theory, this book is distinctive in connecting
an empirical study with wider theoretical debates on identity.
Nominated for the Philip Abrams Memorial Book Prize 2001
Uncertainty is central to the governance of citizenship, but in
ways that erase, even deny, this uncertainty. This book
investigates uncertain citizenship from the unique vantage point of
'citizenisation': twenty-first-century integration and
naturalisation measures that make and unmake citizens and migrants,
while indefinitely holding many applicants for citizenship in what
Fortier calls the 'waiting room of citizenship'. Fortier's
distinctive theory of citizenisation foregrounds how the full
achievement of citizenship is a promise that is always deferred: if
migrants and citizens are continuously citizenised, so too are they
migratised. Citizenisation and migratisation are intimately linked
within the structures of racial governmentality that enables the
citizenship of racially minoritised citizens to be questioned and
that casts them as perpetual migrants. Drawing on multi-sited
fieldwork with migrants applying for citizenship or settlement and
with intermediaries of the state tasked with implementing
citizenisation measures and policies, Fortier brings life to the
waiting room of citizenship, giving rich empirical backing to her
original theoretical claims. Scrutinising life in the waiting room
enables Fortier to analyse how citizenship takes place, takes time
and takes hold in ways that conform, exceed, and confound frames of
reference laid out in both citizenisation policies and
taken-for-granted understandings of 'the citizen' and 'the
migrant'. Uncertain Citizenship's nuanced account of the social and
institutional function of citizenisation and migratisation offers
its readers a grasp of the array of racial inequalities that
citizenisation produces and reproduces, while providing theoretical
and empirical tools to address these inequalities. -- .
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