Borders of Citizenship and the everyday life of African migrants' in the city of São Paulo, southeast of Brazil

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ID5916932
AuthorsCaio Fernandes (0000-0002-8188-2302, Centro Brasileiro de Analise e Planejamento, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume31
Issue67
Pages215-231
Publication date2023-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueREMHU Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1980-8585 • E-ISSN: 2237-9843
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/1980-85852503880006713
OpenAlexW4378715654
SCIELO_PIDS1980-85852023000100215
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited31

This paper proposes the notion of the "Borders of Citizenship" to emphasize people and mobility infrastructures (Jung, Buhr, 2021) that mediate citizenship through many places, actors, and social codes of and beyond the State. Thus, based on the concept of relational citizenship (Staheli et al., 2012), I present an Ethnography carried out from 2019 to 2022 in a Cultural Center, founded by African migrants in the city of São Paulo. More specifically, I draw attention to the center's creation through Mamadou's trajectory, the owner of the center, to highlight how mobility infrastructures play a decisive role in mediating migrant's everyday life through many places, actors, and scales expanding their "sustainability of life", materially and immaterially. I argue that these ordinary spaces are not politically inconsequential for the city or for the migrants. Rather, it shows how mobility and the city are entangled among many mediations that go beyond State, presenting local protagonists, (in)formal networks, and a sense of belonging that constantly reshapes Citizenship

Citizenship · Ethnography · Everyday life · Political science · Politics · Social life · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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