1st Edition

Permitted Outsiders Good Citizenship and the Conditional Inclusion of Migrant and Immigrant Minorities

Edited By Andreas Hackl Copyright 2023
222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

National majorities and their governments often demand that immigrants and other minorities must be “good”: they should work hard, contribute to society, and adapt to dominant cultural norms. Such stereotypical labels for national outsiders, ranging from “good immigrants” to “good Muslims” and “model minorities”, imply that their inclusion and recognition becomes conditional on fulfilling certain... Read more

1. Introduction—Good immigrants, permitted outsiders: conditional inclusion and citizenship in comparison 

Andreas Hackl 

2. Claiming membership: boundaries, positionality, US citizenship, and what it means to be American 

Irene Bloemraad 

3. Cultivated intuition: reframing migrant responses to the "Public Charge" policy 

Helena Zeweri and Eloy Gardea 

4. "Muslims are finally waking up": post-9/11 American immigrant youth challenge conditional citizenship 

Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher, Thea Abu El-Haj, Arshad Ali, Michelle Fine, Roozbeh Shirazi 

5. Citizens-in-waiting: strategic naturalization delays in the USA and UAE 

Noora Lori 

6. Being Muslim 'without a fuss': relaxed religiosity and conditional inclusion in Danish schools and society 

Laura Gilliam 

7. New models of the "good refugee" – bureaucratic expectations of Syrian refugees in Germany   

Morgan Etzel 

8. Intergenerational narratives of citizenship among EU citizens in the UK after the Brexit referendum 

Marie Godin and Nando Sigona 

9. Labouring for inclusion: debating immigrant contributions to Chile 

Megan Sheehan 

10. The transnational continuum of conditional inclusion: from marginalised immigrants to rejected returnees 

Ninna Nyberg Sørensen 

 

 

 

 

Biography

Andreas Hackl is a political and economic anthropologist at the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His research focuses on inequality, migration, forced displacement, and the internet economy. He is the author of The Invisible Palestinians: The Hidden Struggle for Inclusion in Jewish Tel Aviv.