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The Vicissitudes of Postcolonial Citizenship and Belonging in Late Liberalism

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What does it mean emotionally to live one’s life across continents, to have citizenship in one state by birth, whilst intimate others have allegiances to other places? How can one belong when migration is woven into the fabric of life, when mobility is expected by family, and expulsion enforced by the state? What forms of attachment and subjectivity are possible for the postcolonial gendered citizen in the post 9/11 world, and how might we approach understanding them?

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Roseneil, S. (2013). The Vicissitudes of Postcolonial Citizenship and Belonging in Late Liberalism. In: Roseneil, S. (eds) Beyond Citizenship?. Citizenship, Gender and Diversity. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137311351_11

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