CMS Community- University Partnerships Research Group presents ‘Citizen Alien’ or ‘Alien Citizen’? Dialoguing lived citizenship through collaborative autoethnography.
This session features dialogue between CMS Affiliate Natasha Damiano (Department of Rehabilitation Sciences), Ozlem Atar (Queen’s University) and Esra Ari (Mount Royal University) about the continuum of political membership categories. Their purpose is to self-reflexively examine how the boundaries that mark specific categories of citizenship are blurred in the everyday lives of immigrants, based on their personal experiences of migration. Foregrounding lived experience, they invite participants to explore with them the fluid areas between “citizen” and “alien” as they are discussed within the critical citizenship literature. The ideas presented developed from their participation in The StOries Project as well as subsequent collaborations with other colleagues from that initial project.
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