Description
In my forthcoming monograph ‘Loss and Liquid Citizenship: the postmigration condition in an Age of Populism (Routledge, June 2025) I argue that the supposedly rigid legal and symbolic boundaries between citizenship and migrant status are increasingly blurred.In this paper, I will concentrate and talk more in-depth about the notion of ‘liquid’ (Bauman, 2000) in the context of what has been called ‘liquid migration’ (Engbersen et al. 2013), reflecting on European Union internal border crossing and movements (arka for EU citizens). On her territory the additional rights layers (of free movement) for EU citizens have been fundamentally interrogated and abandoned through the UK’s Brexit decision of 2016 and actual departure in 2021. Following up some of its contradictions and intending to move beyond the rigid boundary debate – citizen versus migrant/ alien – I will share examples of how ‘liquid migration’ has been applied, what the contradictions are, and in what ways liquid citizenship offers a conceptual rethink of existing binaries.
| Period | 16 Jun 2025 |
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| Event title | Migration, Borders, and the Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion |
| Event type | Workshop |
| Location | Belfast, United KingdomShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | Regional |