Gender, Migration and Citizenship I

Abstract

Keynote Speaker: Helma Lutz, Goethe University Frankfurt "Gender, Migration and Citizenship" Two perspectives build up the starting points for debate within the panel: on the one hand, Engin Isin's concept of “acts of citizenship”, i.e. performative acts that aim to fundamentally change the conditions of citizenship and which therefore play a major role in the context of migration and social diversity. On the other hand, contributions from the field of intersectionality research, which have shown the extent to which citizenship is linked to social inequalities and how access to rights also reveals specific constellations of inequality. Based on this assumption, scholars have investigated different and interacting modes of production of inequalities in respect to race, class, gender and other categories, like e.g. sexuality and ability, in recent years. In these processes, new forms of subjectivation arise and show the struggle to form “coherent-fragmented” selves expressed in new forms of hyperconnected performativity. The Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, for example, prominently drew attention to the fact that race, class and gender are not only specifically linked to each other in a given situation, but also play a significant role when it comes to being able to claim rights e.g. on social media platforms. Coming from this, the panel aims to discuss current dynamics of the interplay of migration, gender and citizenship, among them bordering, social pluralisation in the context of migration and struggles for belonging, as well as membership constellations and associated processes of inclusion and exclusion. Scholarly perspectives on migration and citizenship tend to see it as formed by a global cast-system that corresponds to increasing brutality and rigidness on the regime level. This relates to new forms of subjectivization in migration processes that emphasize personal dignity and entitlements, e.g. in debates on the relationship between human rights and citizenship rights and in social movement contexts.  The Panel Gender, Migration and Citizenship wants to discuss different dynamics of these processes. The corresponding questions might be:  How does the global cast-like citizenship regime control intersectional patterns of inequality in different spheres of global mobility like work, tourism, science or education? What kinds of unfamiliar acts of citizenship articulate intersectional configurations emerging in a hyperconnected global public sphere?  In which way does citizenship control the intersectional constellations between gender and migration in the transnational matrixes of power?

Title	Details
Structures of Abandonment: Gender, Statuslessness and Bare Life	View Paper Details
Lebanese without citizenship – Restrictions, Copings strategies, and performative citizenship of non-Lebanese children in Lebanon	View Paper Details
Voicing Power, Asserting Rights: Burundian Refugees and their Acts of Citizenship in Transnational Social Spaces	View Paper Details
The Quest for Re-rooting in Barcelona: Everyday Life of Illegalized Migrants in the City of Refuge	View Paper Details