Marginalized (non)citizens : migrant youth political engagement, volunteering and performative citizenship in the context of Brexit
Sime, Daniela and Behrens, Silvia (2023) Marginalized (non)citizens : migrant youth political engagement, volunteering and performative citizenship in the context of Brexit. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 46 (7). pp. 1502-1526. ISSN 0141-9870 (https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2022.2142061)
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Abstract
Migrants' opportunities for civic and political participation are often restricted by their legal rights. This paper reports on a study which included a survey with 1120 young people aged 12-18 originally from Central and Eastern Europe, living in the UK, and follow-up focus groups with 122 participants. We examine young people's views on political and non-political participation and their engagement in everyday performative citizenship. We found connections between civic participation and political participation, and both are conditioned by one's sense of belonging to place and recognition of individual agency. Young people were interested and wanted to be involved in politics, yet they did not feel they could shape political decisions, unlike other forms of participation, such as volunteering and social activism. The study progresses existing knowledge on young people's exclusions from everyday performative citizenship, in the context of current public debates on youth engagement and young migrants' integration.
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Sime, Daniela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3207-5456 and Behrens, Silvia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2719-0169;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 83107 Dates: DateEvent19 May 2023Published6 December 2022Published Online15 September 2022AcceptedSubjects: Social Sciences > Social pathology. Social and public welfare > Social service. Social work. Charity organization and practice Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Social Work and Social Policy > Social Work and Social Policy Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 08 Nov 2022 11:35 Last modified: 07 Sep 2024 00:47 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/83107