Having Lived Close Beside Them All the Time

Negotiating National Identities Through Personal Networks

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9075758
AutoresLaura Tabili (University of Arizona, autor correspondente)
Ano2005
Volume39
Fascículo2
Páginas369-387
Data de publicação2005-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Social History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-4529 • E-ISSN: 1527-1897
EditoraOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1353/jsh.2005.0161
OpenAlexW1989060669
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas15

Applications for naturalization in late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Britain reveal the ways migrants and natives defined and articulated British nationality. The demand that candidates produce British-born referees made relations between these individuals and the state contingent on prior relationships with neighbors, co-workers, and local states, while it simultaneously drew native-born Britons into collusion with this nation-building project. This evidence sheds light on migrants' social networks: neighbors, friends, spouses, employers, business and religious contacts, landlords, and the "customary practices" through which outsiders became British. These stories show that naturalization was not simply an objective, legal, and secular contract between an individual and the state, but also a personal, subjective, and collective process in which native Britons as well as migrants played decisive roles. British nationality formed in asymmetrical dialogue between local and national, migrants and natives, state and society

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