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This chapter discusses the extent to which same-sex parents represent a possible theoretical model of inclusive and anti-assimilationist citizenship precisely because of the still ambivalent and politically undetermined nature of their civic entitlements. This chapter examines how this micro-situated and emotion-based model of social inclusion can be applied to other marginalised social groups or liminal communities, creating the foundations for more caring, more just and more inclusive societies.

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    I intentionally and critically use the expression “so-called” to qualify the term crisis as this latter indicates a sudden, unexpected and problematic event. This is not the case of the current humanitarian emergency, which is a structural phenomenon that has been affecting the lives of thousands of refugees and asylum seekers for years and will continue to do so in the future. Dealing with this phenomenon by looking at it as a crisis, rather than an integral part of the process of human, social and economic development, is simply wrong and represents a missed opportunity.

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    Schiller et al. (1992, as cited in Ambrosini 2007a: 1) define transnationalism as “the emergence of a social process in which migrants establish social fields that cross geographic, cultural and political borders […] and take actions, make decisions and feel concerns within a field of social relations that link together their country of origin and their country or countries of settlement”.

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Pratesi, A. (2018). Future Directions and Possible Applications. In: Doing Care, Doing Citizenship . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63109-7_10

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