Production Of Citizenship Research Articles

:Blackness in Mexico: Afro-Mexican Recognition and the Production of Citizenship in the Costa Chica

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Economia solidária e saúde mental no Brasil: produzindo cultura para autonomia

Abstract This text approaches the articulation between solidarity economy practices and the production of citizenship and autonomy among individuals in psychosocial suffering, through an artistic/cultural production. The confluence between public mental healthcare and associated work as an alternative to labor insertion for people suffering from mental disease is, although still challenging, very important in Brazil. We analyze two consolidated experiences, each extending over a period of two decades: The Suburban Madness group in the city of Rio de Janeiro, and GeraçãoPOA in Porto Alegre, both Brazilian capitals of the states of Rio de Janeiro and Rio Grande do Sul, respectively. The relevance of this research lies in showing the fruitful intersections between social movements, public health care, and arts, especially now that Brazil is facing a period of authoritarianism, which places at risk the democratic achievements of both public policies and social movements.

Ex-centric citizenship: bolivian migration and violence in Argentina

ABSTRACT In response to the idea of citizenship as a way of regulating the population and guaranteeing state supremacy, and the suggestion that migrants develop political subjectivity autonomously from the state, this article focuses on the heterogeneous production of citizenship that realizes Bolivian migrants in Argentina. The main argument is that the ways in which these migrants experienced citizenship can exceed standard political practices creating ex-centric ways of been citizen. Drawing on violent disputes over land tenure and insecurity on the outskirts of La Plata, Argentina, the article examines the insight such incidents provide into the place of Bolivian migrants in the context of reception. In this analysis, the main hypothesis is that in cases such as these, Bolivians act violently when and because they feel like citizens. In other words, the experience of migrants is indicative of the openness of citizen subjectivation and its complex relationship with the state.

Making Citizens Behind Bars (and the Stories We Tell About It): Queering Approaches to Prison Literacy Programs

Scholarship in literacy and composition studies has demonstrated the many connections between literacy education and citizenship production (e.g. Guerra, Wan). Despite often being neglected in conversations about literacy education and citizenship training, prison education programs and incarcerated students have a unique relationship to citizenship and can make an important contribution to that scholarship. By putting literacy studies in conversation with queer studies and critical prison studies, I argue that we as literacy educators and teachers can train ourselves to notice and push back against the harmful ideologies underlying the discourse around prison literacy education programs and citizenship education. This attention to language is essential because it has a material effect on the incarcerated students we teach, as well as the futures we imagine for our classes, programs, and the wider landscape of prison education.

Waiting for the state: Gender, citizenship and everyday encounters with bureaucracy in India

This article focuses on practices and meanings of time and waiting experienced by poor, low-class Dalits and Muslims in their routine encounters with the state in India. Drawing on ethnographic research from Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh, it presents experiences of waiting around queuing and applying for paperwork, cards, and welfare schemes, in order to examine the role of temporal processes in the production of citizenship and citizen agency. An analysis of various forms of waiting – ‘on the day’, ‘to and fro’, and ‘chronic’ waiting – reveals how temporal processes operate as mechanisms of power and control through which state actors and other mediators produce differentiated forms of citizenship and citizens. Temporal processes and their material outcomes, we argue, are shaped by class, caste and religion, while also drawing on – and reproducing – gendered identities and inequalities. However, rather than being ‘passive’ patients of the state, we show how ordinary people draw on money, patronage networks and various performative acts in an attempt to secure their rights as citizens of India.

Transbodied Spaces

Much of the scholarship around the notion of home draws on ethnographic and phenomenological studies. As a result, the emphasis is on presence, the physical and material existence of people, spaces, and objects. Through the experiences of six undocumented Mexicans living in Minnesota, this article expands inquiry into how private spatial realities intersect with homemaking processes and citizenship production. The argument is that absence is as critical in unraveling what home means as presence. Situating homemaking at the junctures of the presence and absence of bodies, spaces, and objects, the article positions homes as transbodied spaces. Conceiving of homes as transbodied spaces allows for an exploration of how “illegality” diversifies the domestic experience. The resulting production of a private landscape that accounts for presence and absence, endows some undocumented with an immigrant identity that is validated and spatially promoted. In parallel, the spatial constraints they endure can suppress their efforts to carve out meaning and identity, contributing to their “‘illegalization.” Cognizant of “illegality’s” challenges and that social inequalities are partly spatially constructed at both the private and the public levels, and are therefore malleable, scholars and practitioners can rethink their approach to those “living in the shadows.”

Contested Engagements: Youth and the Politics of Citizenship

In this paper, a framework is presented for exploring how youth perform their citizenship through political engagements. The framework provides a way to explore the agency of youthful citizens as imagined by different agents and the ways that youth understand their performances as citizenship. Using interviews with university students and administrators at six universities in Manchester and Glasgow, a distinction is highlighted between agency and the performance of political acts in the production of citizenship, and the implications of this distinction for the development of autonomous citizens.

‘Small-Town Defenders’: The Production of Citizenship and Belonging in Hazleton, Pennsylvania

Over the past five years an aggressive movement has emerged to return immigration enforcement powers to the local level in the US, and to some extent in Europe as well. Hazleton, PA, was home to the first local government in the US to pass an ‘Illegal Immigration Relief Act’ (IIRA), which subsequently became a model for other cities across the country seeking to implement their own immigration regulations. We argue that Hazleton's IIRA was as much productive of tensions over migration as it was the product of them. Neoliberal economic restructuring left Hazleton residents feeling a sense of ‘class downgrading’ but the ordinance itself was central in creating divisions between the native-born white population and recent Latino arrivals. As much as the ordinance served to exclude undocumented immigrants, it simultaneously served to unify native-born white residents by repositioning Hazleton as ‘small-town USA’, no longer marginal but, instead, central to the defense of American ‘quality of life’. Control over housing became a key form of spatial and territorial control through the creation of a location in which outsiders could be defined as not-belonging and local citizenship could be imbued with new meaning. The paper illuminates the ways in which ‘Americanness’ and citizenship are locally constructed and highlights the significance of territorial control and collective identity in addition to economic restructuring in the resurgence of local immigration regulations.

Jewish Acculturation: Identity, Society and Schooling Buenos Aires, Argentina (1890-1930)

Jewish Acculturation:Identity, Society and Schooling Buenos Aires, Argentina (1890-1930) M. Fernanda Astiz (bio) Introduction As in the United States (U.S.), between 1890 and 1930 millions of Europeans arrived in Argentina. Although immigrants arrived from several European countries, Italians, Spaniards and Jews (the latter mainly coming from Eastern European countries and the Ottoman Empire) were among the largest groups. Jews migrated to Argentina because of its flexible and attractive immigration laws and the laicism of its social and political institutions, such as the educational system. The influx of Jewish people was so steady that Buenos Aires, Argentina's capital city, became one of the largest Jewish centers of the world, and the most important one in Latin America.1 Even though immigrant assimilation and citizen production is usually discussed as a central task of nation building, how this has happened through schools is still not well understood in the Argentine context. While there is extensive historical research of this process in the U.S., not many historians have looked into the institutional links among the nation-state, mass schooling, and the assimilation process in Argentina, particularly in the city of Buenos Aires at the turn of the twentieth century. The few studies that examined this topic in the Argentine context tend to deemphasize ethnic differences among immigrant groups and accept the predominant melting pot theory.2 The purpose of this study is to examine Jewish acculturation into Argentine society. In this sense, it functions as a case study of the larger question the role immigration and schooling played in the constitution of Argentina's national identity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Looking beyond the schooling process, Argentina's national imagery and society, this study suggests that the characteristics of the Jewish community, both before and upon arrival, affected their acculturation as well. To achieve its purpose, this study uses typical historiography research methods. Through a careful analysis of historical primary and secondary sources, this research underscores the Jewish acculturation pattern to Argentine society. Policy documents, archival materials (e.g., photographs and news [End Page 41] articles) and key cultural productions were sources of data collection. These historical sources have been obtained from Argentina's Library of Congress, Argentina's National Library, the Argentine Ministry of Education and Culture's Library, the Israeli-Argentine Mutual Aid Association's (AMIA) documentation and archives center Mark Turkow, the Institute for Jewish Research (YIWO) located both in Buenos Aires and New York City, and the Jewish Theological Seminary's affiliate in Buenos Aires. In order to fill gaps left by the paucity of documentation of this time period, the author used personal memories archived by AMIA and conducted a few personal interviews arranged by AMIA's Senior Adults program coordinator. Beyond the significance this study has for Latin American historical research, Argentine Jewish studies and international and comparative studies in general, it illuminates the implications of historical research for contemporary education policy in the U.S. and other contexts where international migration continues to be as important as it was during the early twentieth century. Schooling, Acculturation and National Identity Formation From its earliest conception as an institution, formal public mass schooling, managed and financed by the nation-state, developed with citizenship production as one of its chief services to national societies.3 Sociological and historical observations of the origins of mass schooling in nations have noted the assumption held by a wide spectrum of political interests that there is, and should be, a link between universal education and democratic citizenry as a predictable route to social order within a national polity. Creating national citizens was, and still is, a main impetus for mass schooling.4 There have been several persuasive explanations of the process of community-building that some say schools generate and encourage. Historian Benedict Anderson suggests that community building occurs through the creation of a perceived individual membership in "imagined communities."5 This argument implies that by virtue of the shared schooling experience, youth are incorporated into social, economic and political communities beyond even their own social class, school and ethnicity. Others show that national identity is more manufactured than accidental, and that it is manufactured...

Working against globalisation: the role of the media and national education in Singapore

This article discusses how the media and schools are used as disciplinary apparatuses to resist and work against globalisation in Singapore. Aihwa Ong calls the deployment of state ideological apparatuses, such as the media and schools, acts of ‘reassemblage’, when technocrats resort to assemble institutions, diverse Government practice and political values to engage in citizenship production. The National Education curriculum package introduced to Singapore schools is one example of ‘reassemblage’, which aims to reinvent subject‐citizens who are perceived as lacking cultural mooring and a national identity. I argue that in the context of globalisation, this cultural experimentation of constructing a national identity and creating a sense of belonging is fraught with ruptures, as ‘youthscapes’ and new communication technologies are potentially the liminal spaces where other sources of identities are up for grabs. These liminal spaces further allow youths to perform ‘elective belonging’ rather than a sense of belonging bound by the ‘national’ and ‘local’.