Caught in a bad romance

Displaced people and the Georgian state

Bibliographic Data

ID5160713
AuthorsIrina Levin (Queens College, CUNY, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume22
Issue1
Pages19-36
Publication date2018-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCitizenship Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13621025.2017.1410781
OpenAlexW2773236690
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited29

After years of frenetic cross-border movement, in 2014, a mother and daughter live in post-Soviet Georgia as practically stateless noncitizens. Recognizing the advantages of citizenship, they commit their limited resources to obtaining citizenship documents. Through an analysis of their attempts to make citizenship claims and build stable lives, this paper argues that the contemporary Georgian citizenship regime fosters a relationship that further destabilizes the lives of already vulnerable non-citizens. It does so by drawing them in with the promise of citizenship – only to deny them. Yet, Georgian citizenship law is neither uniquely malicious nor indifferent; its form of ‘inclusive exclusion’ is an inherent feature of the reigning paradigm of global citizenship. In this context, far from being passive subjects, non-citizens facing consistent official refusals and seemingly flagrant obfuscation actively attempt to both maintain their relationship with the state and transform it in their favor

Art · Citizenship · Georgian · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Politics · Romance · Sociology · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Peacebuilding and International Security · Philosophy

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