Abstract
This article explores the different experiences of migrant women who are at various stages in the UK naturalisation process, drawing on interviews in Leicester and London, United Kingdom. We consider how care and coloniality shape migrant women’s experiences in the context of the neoliberal test process and what Nancy Fraser has called a ‘crisis of care’ (Fraser 2016). We argue that migrant women claim their own citizenship despite rather than because of the naturalisation process, and in so doing resist colonial relations of citizenship.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 583-601 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Citizenship Studies |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Early online date | 1 Jun 2021 |
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| Publication status | Published - Jun 2021 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Funder
This work was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (grant number ES/K010174/1).Keywords
- Citizenship
- migrant women
- naturalization
- coloniality
- United Kingdom
Themes
- Social Movements and Contentious Politics
- Migration, Displacement and Belonging