Performances of Noncitizenship

Abstract

This panel will focus on the rules, regulations and procedures through which (non)citizenship regimes are built, including setting the boundaries of the demos and voting rights. The concept of noncitizenship expresses a relationship that is often described in political terms. But noncitizens are also workers belonging to different economic groups and embedded in different sectors of the economy that affect both their social mobility as well as their relationship to political dynamics. By describing and developing the idea of a ‘noncitizen space’, this panel broadens the discussion of noncitizenship. This panel examines institutional regulation of noncitizenship in the context of noncitizen experiences, broadly understood. The panel investigates the experiences of inhabiting the space in between across different contexts. At the same, it highlights the importance of remaining attentive to the myriad of ways in which noncitizenship is entrenched and reinforced by states in efforts to reinscribe the binary between citizenship and noncitizenship. This includes the technologies of governance, including migration management. The experience of noncitizenship addressed in this panel includes harms and vulnerabilities as well as insurgent forms of action and political subjectivity. The panel invites discussion of creative attempts to reinterpret the meaning and implications of noncitizenship. What is ‘noncitizen space’ and what does it mean to understand this space as expressing a relationship to the state that may be addressed or navigated without recourse to citizenship? What would these alternative models look like, and how does context influence the shape they take in different cultural and sociopolitical settings?

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