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The ‘Edge Effect’: Unfolding the Phenomenological Potential of Citizenship through Interdisciplinary and Emotion-Based Approaches

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The theoretical contribution of this chapter focuses on the multiple but reconcilable definitions of civic entitlements and responsibilities of all those social actors who represent a possible synthesis between private and public spheres, centre and periphery, inside and outside, developed and developing world, overcoming dichotomous ideas of inclusion/exclusion which typically define the concept of citizenship. More specifically, it looks at the ways in which critical theorisations of care, migration and emotions provide us with more grounded, phenomenological, intersectional understandings of citizenship which are able to overcome a merely binary logic of inclusion (via assimilation)/exclusion (via marginalisation). Its overall objective is developing new perspectives to understand the relationship between individuals, local communities and political institutions, and identifying useful insights into how people across the globe resourcefully “do citizenship” and social inclusion in many different ways and through the emotional dynamics revolving around them.

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    Positive contaminations between different subject matters, between topics as diverse as migration, sexuality, social movements and care, and between different approaches and disciplinary fields.

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    From the methodological point of view, the research drew on a multi-method approach: semi-structured in-depth interviews, weekly diaries on the emotional experience of care, participant observation, online discussion forums between members of parents’ associations, ongoing conversations with the respondents beyond the interview context, key-informants’ interviews, secondary sources on informal care and parenthood collected from adoption agencies and local associations, journal and newspaper articles, and the Web.

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    That is, world citizens with different forms of entitlements, partial entitlements, or no entitlements at all.

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    Beck and Beck-Gernsheim (2014) talk about “world families” to describe heterogeneous groups of social actors who—due to their geographical mobility and constant interaction with different cultural and national groups—represent a possible synthesis between private and public spheres, centre and periphery, national and international borders, overcoming the binary paradigm of inclusion/exclusion which typically characterises the concept of citizenship. I prefer to talk about unequally entitled citizens to describe groups of heterogeneous social actors—including refugees and asylum seekers, same-sex parents, irregular migrant workers, etc.—who share their liminality in terms of belonging and entitlement to rights.

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    Consider the examples of Lampedusa and several other ‘good stories’ of solidarity in southern Italy, the experience of Seawatch (a German non-profit humanitarian organisation founded in 2014 with the aim of carrying out search and rescue activities in the Mediterranean), the countless examples of migrants’ and refugees’ associations in Germany, France, Spain and elsewhere in Europe, the example of Portugal’s openness and solidarity towards refugees which represents an exceptional case in the EU, and even the City of Sanctuary example (a network of villages, towns, cities and regions across the UK intended to welcome people seeking sanctuary) in post-Brexit UK.

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Pratesi, A. (2022). The ‘Edge Effect’: Unfolding the Phenomenological Potential of Citizenship through Interdisciplinary and Emotion-Based Approaches. In: Supik, L., et al. Gender, Race and Inclusive Citizenship. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-36391-8_4

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