1st Edition

Loss and Liquid Citizenship in Europe The Postmigration Condition in an Age of Populism

By Ulrike M. Vieten Copyright 2025
176 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

176 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Loss and Liquid Citizenship in Europe offers a means of understanding how experiences of loss intersect with discourses of migration and citizenship, to affect feelings of belonging with respect to host communities and newcomers. Adopting a de-colonial and intersectional perspective, it examines the condition of postmigration, regarding it as a space of social, cultural, and political... Read more

Introduction: The Age of Populism - The Scary Normality of Liquid Life

1. Other than Europe? Decolonialising the Territorial Social Order

2. The ‘Postmigration Condition’

3. Liquid Citizenship: Temporality of Rights and Belonging

4. Minority (European) Citizens: Multi-Layered ‘Glocal’ Belonging

5. Loss: Uncertainty of Status and Rights

6. Beyond Citizenship Status: Asylum Limbo and the Loss of Rights

7. Loss and Dis/Placement: Empathy Beyond Europe

8. The Language of Dance: Emotive Scapes of Movement

Outlook: Beyond the Fear of Loss

Biography

Ulrike M. Vieten is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) of Sociology at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. She is the editor of Revisiting Iris Marion Young on Normalisation, Inclusion and Democracy and author of Gender and Cosmopolitanism in Europe: A Feminist Perspective, co-author of Normalization of the Global Far Right: Pandemic Disruption?, and the co-editor of Cartographies of Differences: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.