The making of procedural justice: enacting the state and (non)citizenship

[en] Recent advances in citizenship and migration studies have demonstrated the need to explore noncitizens’ social, political and legal relationships to the state in their own right. Such a rethinking inevitably requires analysing how both ‘citizenship’ and ‘the state’ are enacted and performed in the negotiation of substantive rights. This special issue follows an unexplored path by scrutinizing these interactions between ‘citizenship’ and ‘stateness’ in the domain of procedural law, procedural safeguards, and perceptions of procedural justice among a variety of actors. The contributions explore empirically how procedural rules are invoked, altered, disregarded, or reinvented in different sites of interaction, ranging from asylum determination and adjudication to immigration and municipal registration offices. This interactionist approach not only recasts procedural rules as an integral part of citizenship struggles, thereby shedding light on the co-constitution of state and noncitizenship, but also stresses the importance of nuanced analyses of the nexus between procedural and substantive rights.

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Anthropology

Author, co-author :

Andreetta, Sophie ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences sociales > Labo d'anthropologie sociale et culturelle (LASC)

Vetters, Larissa ; Department of Law and Anthropology, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale), Germany

Yanaşmayan, Zeynep ; Migration Department, German Centre for Integration and Migration Research, Berlin, Germany

Language :

English

Title :

The making of procedural justice: enacting the state and (non)citizenship

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07 November 2022

Journal title :

Citizenship Studies

ISSN :

1362-1025

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1469-3593

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Informa UK Limited

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1-17

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