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In this response, I will start from Brace’s analysis of the good citizen to consider the extent to which current family migration policies reproduce ideologies of gender that are often obscured in the disembodied notions of the liberal individual who consents to the social contract. Using the substantial changes made to the family migration policies in the United Kingdom in July 2012 as a focus for the analysis,1 I will consider values and norms attached to citizenship and the ways in which migrants are expected to prove their deservingness to become members of the ‘community of value’ (Anderson, 2013). Importantly, however, the belonging signalled by immigration policies is not only an indication of the membership potential of the non-citizen other but also about the membership of the native-born citizen.
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Hughes, V. (2015). Can Family Migrants Be Good Citizens?. In: Anderson, B., Hughes, V. (eds) Citizenship and its Others. Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137435088_4
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