Project description
Revoking citizenship and the politics of security
It is a controversial practice, but the withdrawal of citizenship leaves people stateless. With security concerns mounting, citizenship revocation is increasingly being used in recent years by countries in a bid to fight terrorism. The narrative is that revoking citizenship would prevent radical citizens from returning home. But the impacts on society and democracy altogether are significant, requiring urgent attention. The project aims to highlight how feelings are being mobilised to legitimise the revoking of citizenship, and focuses on the specific practice in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. The project is taking place at Queen Mary University of London and is conducted by Dr Marie Beauchamps working under the supervision of Professor Jef Huysmans, who is a renowned scholar in critical security studies.
Objective
This project examines denaturalisation laws that have been enacted in Europe, with a comparative focus on practices of withdrawal of citizenship in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Denaturalisation laws raise fundamental questions about politics of belonging and repression, as well as about what it means to be a citizen, be at at the national, European, or global level. The democratic and societal implications of the withdrawal of citizenship and the emotional politics involved are a particularly urgent concern today. Security concerns have led to an intense revival of public debates about the legitimacy of withdrawing citizenship and about its consequences, both for the individuals involved and the wider society. The research methods applied are archival research and critical discourse analysis. Empirically innovative as it collects archival material on the underexplored issue of denaturalisation, the project makes a timely intervention in current debates on security and citizenship. By studying norms of citizenship in relation to security practices, it makes a crucial contribution to security studies, in which citizenship remains an under-researched question. Its focus on emotions reveals affective relationships between citizenship and security. The project will take place at the Queen Mary University of London under the supervision of Prof. Jef Huysmans, who is a renowned scholar in critical security studies with a focus on the relationship between citizenship and security. The fellowship will significantly enhance my academic skills and career opportunities, allowing me to join a leading research centre in the social sciences after having worked in the humanities so far. It will allow the scope of my research to grow from a national context to an international and comparative framework, and establish me as an inter-disciplinary expert in citizenship and security.
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EF
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