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1. Citizenship by citizens : First generation nationals with Turkish ancestry on lived citizenship in Paris and Stockholm
Abstract : The main aim of this thesis is to study how citizens with an immigrant ancestry approach citizenship. The academically popular re-formulations that decouple citizenship from the state, such as “postnational” and “denationalised” perspectives, call for a reconfiguration of the understanding and practices of citizenship. READ MORE
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2. Cultivating responsible citizenship : Collective gardens at the periphery of neoliberal urban norms
Abstract : The growing human population is concentrating in urban environments across the globe, leading to urban expansion and densification. Consequently, political debates and social movements concerned with urban planning and land use have increased in relevance. READ MORE
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3. Challenging the tyranny of citizenship : statelessness in Lebanon
Abstract : There are seventeen million people in the world who are stateless, not considered as citizens by any state. They suffer due to the current function of citizenship in the nation-state system, occupying a legal space outside of the system, yet, their lives are very much blighted by the system itself. READ MORE
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4. Training for Model Citizenship : An Ethnography of Civic Education and State-Making in Rwanda
Abstract : This thesis addresses how government in Rwanda plays out in practice and how it affects lived experiences of state power and citizenship. Two decades after the genocide, Rwanda has come to be associated both with security, development, and stability, on the one hand, and with state repression and coercion, on the other. READ MORE
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5. Mothers' Social Citizenship : The logics and effects of the German and Swedish welfare states
Abstract : In recent decades, the strong influence of the male breadwinner model of welfare is increasingly being replaced by the adult worker model all across Europe. This development has had a crucial influence on mothers’ social rights. READ MORE