Assembling the legal status precarity of teen girls
Family Practices, Kinning and Dekinning as the Fragile Work of Legal Status
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4525481 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patricia Landolt (University of Toronto, corresponding author), Bahar Hashemi (University of Toronto) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 933-951 |
| Publication date | 2024-11-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Citizenship Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13621025.2025.2480033 |
| OpenAlex | W4409166299 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 40 |
The contact point between the family and the state is a key site in the production of youth legal precarity. The family has become an essential component of youth migration projects in light of the violence and precarities that cut through global migration politics and policy. As family and kin navigate a securitized global migration system that criminalizes movement, they are engaging, contending, interpreting and navigating state power. Conceptualizing the family as a dynamic set of practices, rather than a unified object, we examine how the ‘contact point’ between the state, family and kin assembles youth’s precarious non/citizenship. We present data from retrospective, in-depth interviews with five young women who settled in Toronto as teenagers and lived for extended periods of time without authorized immigration status and largely under the radar of the state. Drawing on the non/citizenship assemblages framework, and the concept of the ‘work of legal status’, we demonstrate the importance of kinning, re-kinning and de-kinning processes as a mediator of youth’s legal status precarity
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |