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Informal Citizenship

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Citizen-self; Social membership; Social relations of the informal economy; Social substructure

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Informal citizenship is a status acquired through an individual’s membership in a social substructure/subgroup with which he/she identifies as the legitimate collective/context in which to pursue those claims normally associated with and attached to formal citizenship status. Informal citizenship resides in that realm of formal citizenship status where particularistic needs (be they political and civil, economic, or sociocultural) are either unmet or under-met and where a subordinated social system assumes responsibility for meeting them. Whereas formal citizenship status subordinates individualism to universalism and subculturalism to nationalism within the state, informal citizenship is the obverse. It is where there is alienation from the broader collectivity and where social cohesion in the society, economic citizenship, and loyalty to the political system are replaced...

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Schoburgh, E. (2016). Informal Citizenship. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_2843-1

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