Wiebe Ruijtenberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 99015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wiebe Ruijtenberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wiebe |
| FAMILY NAME | Ruijtenberg |
| SIGNATURE | RUIJTENBERG W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
I Choose to Live: Mobility Work in and in between Cairo and Amsterdam
Drawing upon fifteen months of ethnographic fieldwork with Egyptians in Cairo and Amsterdam,Footnote1 along with interviews conducted for our podcast de Verbranders, in this paper, we describe the activities in which people engage as they strive to cross borders meant to keep them out and settle in places designed to exclude and subordinate them. We term these activities ‘mobility work’ arguing that wherever borders place obstacles between people…
Migrants, welfare and social citizenship in postcolonial Europe
Contains fulltext : 296246.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access
Welfare, social citizenship, and the spectre of inequality in Amsterdam
This article explores how notions of citizenship are negotiated in encounters between parents and youth care professionals in Amsterdam in the context of heated debates over citizenship and belonging. We draw on ethnographic research on Egyptian migrant parents' interactions with the welfare state, and on the work of youth care professionals. We found that both parents and professionals were invested in universal forms of citizenship. Parents wan…
Migration as hope and depression: Existential im/mobilities in and beyond Egypt
Recent scholarship has asserted that prolonged periods of ‘waiting’ or ‘stuckedness’ are becoming the condition of modern capitalism for many people. This article complicates this assertion by interrogating the affective life of migration, an act which offers the possibility of overcoming, but also reinforces, existential stuckedness. Using two ethnographies with young aspiring male migrants in Egypt, and older migrant men in the Netherlands, we …
Migration as hope and depression: Existential im/mobilities in and beyond Egypt
Recent scholarship has asserted that prolonged periods of ‘waiting’ or ‘stuckedness’ are becoming the condition of modern capitalism for many people. This article complicates this assertion by interrogating the affective life of migration, an act which offers the possibility of overcoming, but also reinforces, existential stuckedness. Using two ethnographies with young aspiring male migrants in Egypt, and older migrant men in the Netherlands, we …
Welfare, social citizenship, and the spectre of inequality in Amsterdam
This article explores how notions of citizenship are negotiated in encounters between parents and youth care professionals in Amsterdam in the context of heated debates over citizenship and belonging. We draw on ethnographic research on Egyptian migrant parents' interactions with the welfare state, and on the work of youth care professionals. We found that both parents and professionals were invested in universal forms of citizenship. Parents wan…
Migrants, welfare and social citizenship in postcolonial Europe
Contains fulltext : 296246.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access
I Choose to Live: Mobility Work in and in between Cairo and Amsterdam
Drawing upon fifteen months of ethnographic fieldwork with Egyptians in Cairo and Amsterdam,Footnote1 along with interviews conducted for our podcast de Verbranders, in this paper, we describe the activities in which people engage as they strive to cross borders meant to keep them out and settle in places designed to exclude and subordinate them. We term these activities ‘mobility work’ arguing that wherever borders place obstacles between people…
Migration as hope and depression: Existential im/mobilities in and beyond Egypt
Recent scholarship has asserted that prolonged periods of ‘waiting’ or ‘stuckedness’ are becoming the condition of modern capitalism for many people. This article complicates this assertion by interrogating the affective life of migration, an act which offers the possibility of overcoming, but also reinforces, existential stuckedness. Using two ethnographies with young aspiring male migrants in Egypt, and older migrant men in the Netherlands, we …
Welfare, social citizenship, and the spectre of inequality in Amsterdam
This article explores how notions of citizenship are negotiated in encounters between parents and youth care professionals in Amsterdam in the context of heated debates over citizenship and belonging. We draw on ethnographic research on Egyptian migrant parents' interactions with the welfare state, and on the work of youth care professionals. We found that both parents and professionals were invested in universal forms of citizenship. Parents wan…
Migrants, welfare and social citizenship in postcolonial Europe
Contains fulltext : 296246.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access
I Choose to Live: Mobility Work in and in between Cairo and Amsterdam
Drawing upon fifteen months of ethnographic fieldwork with Egyptians in Cairo and Amsterdam,Footnote1 along with interviews conducted for our podcast de Verbranders, in this paper, we describe the activities in which people engage as they strive to cross borders meant to keep them out and settle in places designed to exclude and subordinate them. We term these activities ‘mobility work’ arguing that wherever borders place obstacles between people…
Migration and Labor Dynamics (4 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Citizenship (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)