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Negotiating the Meanings of Citizenships

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ID4866427
AuthorsNoa Leuchter (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume18
Issue6-7
Pages776-790
Publication date2014-08-18
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCitizenship Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13621025.2014.944780
OpenAlexW2064654073
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited53

In this article, I explore the ways in which citizenship is reinvented and reinterpreted through local understandings and experiences. I show how Israeli citizens who had applied for another citizenship create a distinction between their Israeli citizenship, which they conceptualize in terms of identity and belonging, and their ‘European passport’, which they depict as a technical non-obliging document, thus neutralizing the challenge it poses on questions of national loyalty. However, the other sought after citizenship, which represents a legally binding attachment to a nation-state, paradoxically becomes a powerful symbol of freedom, embodying other life possibilities and allowing for an active negotiation of belonging

Aesthetics · Citizenship · Epistemology · Identity (music) · Law and economics · Linguistics · Loyalty · National identity · Negotiation · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Symbol (formal) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Philosophy · Turkey's Politics and Society

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