Anxious Vigilance and the Production of (Il)legitimacy in the UK Citizenship Regime

Q1 Social Sciences Conflict and Society Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI:10.3167/arcs.2022.080108
Rachel Lewis
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This article examines the navigation and enactment of vigilance in the UK citizenship regime. Drawing on data from a four-year research project in a UK city, including observations of citizenship ceremonies and interviews with institutional actors and citizen-candidates, it sees vigilance as a central feature of the naturalization process, with watchfulness oriented toward three key areas: the bureaucratic precision, the linguistic proficiency, and the commitment to the nation evidenced by the citizen-candidate. It sees the navigation of anxious vigilance among all actors—state, institutional, and citizen-candidates—but argues that this is directed unevenly, with the state’s securitizing gaze particularly maintained upon those racialized as Other. Reading citizenship in domopolitical terms as a technology through which the securitized state can enact its bordering practices, it sees the vigilance enacted in the naturalization process as productive: as working to realize the legitimacy of the state and the Good citizen, to articulate and exclude from membership those deemed illegitimate, and, ultimately, to curtail possibilities for solidarity.
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焦虑警惕和生产(Il)合法性在英国公民制度
本文考察了英国公民制度中警惕性的导航和制定。根据在英国一个城市进行的为期四年的研究项目的数据,包括对入籍仪式的观察和对机构参与者和公民候选人的采访,它认为警惕是入籍过程的一个核心特征,警惕面向三个关键领域:官僚主义的准确性、语言熟练程度和公民候选人对国家的承诺。它看到了所有参与者——国家、机构和公民候选人——之间焦虑警惕的导航,但认为这种导向是不均衡的,国家的证券化目光尤其集中在那些被种族化为他者的人身上。从领土政治的角度来看,公民身份是一种技术,通过这种技术,证券化的国家可以制定其边界实践,它认为在归化过程中制定的警惕是富有成效的:努力实现国家和好公民的合法性,阐明并排除那些被认为是非法的成员,并最终减少团结的可能性。
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Conflict and Society
Conflict and Society Social Sciences-Cultural Studies
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