Naturalisation procedures through which states symbolically and legally recognise noncitizens as citizens offer the most secure legal status for migrants and a means for them to evade global inequalities in the world system of nation-states. This study critically examines contemporary citizenship admission procedures in the UK and Germany following the introduction of citizenship tests, courses and ceremonies in the early 2000s. Based on a multi-sited state ethnography of both countries, this thesis argues that naturalisation does not simply separate citizens by discretionary application from citizens by automatic right of birth. Rather, citizenship admission procedures suggest a specific subjectivity, the Super Citizen, insofar as ‘new’ German and British citizens are expected to become a political, economic and cultural asset to the state. This study thus conceptualises naturalisation processes as a specific subject-formation regime created through particular problematisations, rationalities, authorities and techniques as institutionalised by the state. The analysis begins with a brief reconstruction of the genealogy of naturalisation in Britain and Germany, focussing on the emergence of the distinction between nationals and ‘aliens’ or ‘foreigners’, respectively, as well as on the legal mechanisms put in place to differentiate their access to full membership. Using a thematic analysis of qualitative interviews, observations and official documents, the study then tracks contemporary citizenship applications in four research locations in the two countries. It visits ceremony halls, classrooms and naturalisation offices and considers the perspective of a range of actors involved in citizenship admission procedures. This includes those who implement naturalisation on behalf of the state such as officials, legal advisers, teachers, politicians, and guest speakers, as well as the lived experience of the citizenship applicants themselves. The thesis concludes that naturalisation procedures in both the UK and in Germany produce the Super Citizen as a particular, neoliberal and neonational subjectivity that holds newly naturalized citizens responsible for developing a new nationalism.

With the conflict ongoing in Syria since 2011, many Syrian Kurds have been forced to leave their homes to seek safety and security in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). Their displacement to KRI is a distinctive experience of migration as it has happened within an intra-ethnic setting of Syrian Kurds, as refugees, encountering Iraqi Kurds, as hosts. Sharing ethnic identification and imagination of a historical homeland but holding different nationalities, has turned identity and belonging into sites of contestation between the refugees and the hosts. Within this intra-ethnic setting of displacement, the study has investigated the construction of home and politics of identity and belonging among the refugees in relation to protection regimes and forms of inclusion and exclusion. This has been done through a content analysis of relevant policy and regulations for refugees in KRI and Iraq and a thematic analysis of individual narrative interviews with the refugees themselves. Research results from the policy analysis have indicated the lack of a comprehensive protection regime in Iraq and KRI, and the deployment of the ‘guests’ rhetoric towards the refugees as a responsibility evasion mechanism. Results from the interviews have revealed that home for the participants is plural, and it connects to Syria and Kurdistan to varying degrees. Their identity as Kurds is contested when their Syrianness is evoked with boundaries limiting their recognition to be both Syrian and Kurdish. Similarly, their belonging is challenged with their social position as refugees and their legal belonging to Syria. With this, they get involved into a continuum of politics of identity and belonging ranging between the situational demonstration of their Syrian identity and the role of ‘the successful Syrian refugee’, and the accentuation of their attachment to Kurdishness through belonging to Rojava. These politics have been discussed as reflecting a process of reconstructing Syrian Kurdish identity in the light of the experience of displacement and the intra-ethnic encounter. Contextualizing the research results in a wider perspective, it is argued that they carry further implications related to the Kurdish struggle with identity and belonging, not only in KRI, but in all the other parts of Kurdistan.

Cette thèse propose une analyse de l'incapacité du gouvernement des Etats-Unis à modifier en profondeur sa politique d'immigration. Elle montre que son principal facteur explicatif est institutionnel : la résilience du régime d'immigration, entendu comme mode de régulation de l'admission d'immigrants, s'explique par sa capacité à s'appuyer sur une structuration de l'économie politique de l'immigration favorable au blocage des réformes. Pour démontrer cette proposition, notre étude est donc articulée en deux blocs : les facteurs engendrant une crise du régime, et ceux permettant son statu quo. Dans un premier temps, les facteurs structurels et conjoncturels de la crise du régime sont étudiés. Une analyse empirique de la régulation de l'immigration met en évidence ses deux dysfonctionnements structurels : d'une part un déséquilibre croissant entre le nombre de candidats à l'immigration et l'offre de visas et, d'autre part, la formation d'un stock de résidents en situation irrégulière. Néanmoins, l'analyse des représentations de la population américaine concernant cette régulation démontre que la volonté de réformer les conditions d'admission de l'immigration relève aussi de facteurs subjectifs. Une conjoncture économique dégradée intensifie la perception d'une crise du régime, et la préférence pour sa fermeture. Dans un second temps, les facteurs explicatifs de l'absence de fermeture du régime sont analysés. La validité de deux hypothèses explicatives de sa résilience est démontrée par une analyse des épisodes de réforme de 1994 à 2010. En premier lieu, la mise en œuvre politique d'une réforme donne la primauté aux préférences des groupes d'intérêts organisés (communautés immigrées, employeurs, syndicats, nativistes) par rapport à celles de l'opinion publique. En second lieu, les préférences antagonistes de ces groupes d'intérêts les rendent incapables de coopérer : malgré sa non-optimalité, le régime d'immigration correspond donc à une issue stable des négociations législatives, car il limite les pertes de l'ensemble des acteurs en présence. / This PhD dissertation deals with the inability of the United States government to adopt an overhaul of its immigration policy. We show that the main factor accounting for this situation is institutional: the structure of the political economy of immigration explains why reforms attempts fail, and therefore helps to stabilize the regulation of immigrant admissions in the United States. To demonstrate this proposal, we firstly review the roots of the immigration crisis and then analyze why it is not overcome. The immigration crisis in the United States is produced by a set of trends. Some of them are structural. As a fact, the immigration system in the United States is deeply dysfunctional for two reasons. It is firstly very inefficient at properly organizing legal immigration by balancing an increasing demand for immigration visas with an offer bound through quotas. It is secondly unable to dissuade the settlement of a growing undocumented immigrant population. Still, the perception of this immigration crisis and the demand for reform are linked to cyclical factors. Nativist demands for a tightening of immigration legislation are notably greater during times of economic recession. We then explain the absence of immigration restriction in the United States through the demonstration of two complementary factors. Firstly, the political process through which immigration reform is defined give more influence to organized interest groups (such as immigrant communities, employers, unions and nativists) than to public opinion. Secondly, these groups are unable to cooperate for an immigration reform compromise, due to their competing preferences. In another words, the current statu quo prevailing in immigration reform may be suboptimal in terms of regulation of immigrant admissions. It is nevertheless stable, because it allows losses which would inevitably result from a successful immigration reform.

This paper investigates the relationship between the level of implementation of peace agreement provisions regarding forced displacement and the durability of peace in a country. Based on the assumption that implementation creates durable solutions for refugees and internally displaced persons, I argue that the attainment of durable solutions enables displaced populations to contribute to peacebuilding in different ways, for example by encouraging economic activity or promoting transitional justice. These engagements with peacebuilding, in turn, make durable peace more likely. To test this theory, I estimate several logistic models, making use of implementation data from the Peace Accord Matrix and a replication dataset. I find tentative support for my hypothesis that higher levels of implementation of said category of provisions increase the chance of durable peace, but concede that more research must follow to verify and solidify my results.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-08T17:00:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Lucas.pdf: 1523841 bytes, checksum: 9aa9ad4608b1af49e2cac5ad6955bb61 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-06-18 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The migration of people from the city of Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, for the United States is a social phenomenon that has attracted the interest of scholars, mostly since the 1980s. This paper seeks to provide a differently look on such expressive phenomenon, directing the analysis for the children of immigrants, who emigrated during the eighties and nineties. Those young immigrants were born in the United States or migrated still very young and did much of their basic education abroad. To conduct the study, five interviews were collected between January and March 2009. We interviewed three boys and two girls between 16 and 25, who emigrated with a maximum of 15 years or were born in the United States. The first chapter deals with the city and its historical relationship with international migration, the similarities and differences between the old and new migratory flows and an introduction to the trajectory of the young immigrants. The second chapter begins with an analysis on the concepts of youth and generation; attempts to focus on young migrant acting and expressing itself in various ways - mediating the language spoken at home with parents, and the language spoken with friends, building and rebuilding what are their feelings and memories of Brazil and about the family's past, encouraging and or disapproving the values obtained at school, with friends and with the society that surrounds them. The conclusion deals with dreams, plans and expectations of these young people for an often uncertain future. This paper seeks to understand the historical process and the socioeconomic and cultural phenomenon of modern immigration, trying to discover the dynamics of identity formation, language and specific peculiarities of living between two worlds and thus provide new insights that will serve as a dialogue for other studies from the fields of History of Time Present and History of Migration, which target the second generation of Brazilian immigrants / A migração de indivíduos provenientes da cidade de Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, para os Estados Unidos é um fenômeno social que têm despertado o interesse da comunidade acadêmica, principalmente a partir da década de 1980. Este trabalho busca lançar um olhar diferente sobre esse fenômeno tão expressivo, direcionando a análise para aos filhos dos imigrantes valadarenses. Estes são jovens que nasceram nos Estados Unidos ou migraram ainda muito novos, no final da década de 1990 ou nos primeiros anos do século XXI, e fizeram boa parte da sua educação básica no exterior. Para a realização da pesquisa, foram coletadas cinco entrevistas entre os meses de janeiro e março de 2009. Foram entrevistados três rapazes e duas moças entre 16 e 25 anos, que emigraram com no máximo quinze anos ou nasceram nos Estados Unidos. O primeiro capítulo trata da definição do que é um imigrante e dos tipos de migração, introduz a trajetória dos entrevistados, as semelhanças e diferenças entre os antigos e os novos fluxos migratórios e uma reflexão sobre a cidade de Governador Valadares e de sua relação histórica com a migração internacional. O segundo capítulo procura debater os conceitos de geração e juventude, focando os jovens migrantes agindo e expressando-se de diversas formas: mediando a língua falada em casa junto aos pais, com os amigos, as atividades de lazer, festas e namoros; construindo e reconstruindo impressões sobre o Brasil e sobre o passado da família; incentivando e/ou reprovando os valores adquiridos na escola; enfrentando os desafios de conciliar os estudos com o mundo do trabalho, tão presente na vida dos imigrantes brasileiros. Por fim, aborda os sonhos, planos e as expectativas destes jovens para um futuro muitas vezes incerto. Assim, este trabalho procura compreender o processo histórico e os fatores socioeconômicos e culturais do fenômeno da migração moderna, procurando desvendar as dinâmicas da formação identitária, da linguagem específica e das peculiaridades da vida entre dois mundos, fornecendo assim, novos olhares que servirão como diálogo para outros estudos dos campos da História do Tempo Presente e História das Migrações que tenham como alvo a segunda geração de imigrantes brasileiros

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-08T17:00:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 michele.pdf: 1096907 bytes, checksum: b4e525381671a96621d9838a62222716 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-03-14 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / In the last decades of the twentieth century, Brazil emerged in the scenario of international migration. Brazilians left their country encouraged by several factors and many of these people migrated because of the crisis that ravaged the country. Most of these Brazilians chose the United States as a destination of migration. The intensity of migratory flows in some regions meant that Brazilian cities like Governador Valadares (MG), Criciúma (SC) and Maringá (PR) become poles of this migration and in these regions the transformations brought by migrants can be clearly observed. Thus, this study aimed to underline the changes performed by migrants, especially for the ones who came back to Criciúma. By understanding international migration flows as a broad phenomenon, in which many networks are created, several aspects of this migration have been explored. First of all, some elements that helped to consolidate the flow of people from Criciúma to the United States were pointed out. After a brief analysis of how these Brazilians lived abroad, we sought to highlight the difficulties with the return, because for many of them to come back to their city is more difficult than to migrate. The return promotes surprises, and people sometimes cannot deal with the new life. The return also requires investment and planning for the future. Thus, we can highlight the high demand for real estate purchase of this group and how this demand has dramatically changed the urban landscape of Criciúma. It was also attempted to investigate the rearrangements made by the family during the absence of the migrants who have migrated, and also point out some difficulties experienced by these families with plans to return. Overall, this analysis allowed us to highlight some of the consequences of migration in the place of origin, enabling us to better understand the universe of migrants and their families who were waiting for them / Nas últimas décadas do século XX o Brasil despontou no cenário das migrações internacionais. Os brasileiros partiram incentivados por diversos fatores, sendo que muitos migraram por conta das crises que assolavam o país. Grande parte destes brasileiros escolheu como destino migratório os Estados Unidos. A intensidade dos fluxos migratórios de algumas regiões fez com que cidades, como Governador Valadares (MG), Criciúma (SC) e Maringá (PR) se tornassem polos destas migrações, em tais regiões as transformações promovidas pelos migrantes podem ser claramente percebidas. Nesse sentido, este trabalho buscou dar visibilidade às mudanças desempenhadas pelos migrantes, e principalmente pelos retornados, na cidade de Criciúma. Entendendo os fluxos migratórios internacionais como fenômenos amplos, nos quais muitas redes são tecidas, diversos aspectos desta migração foram explorados. Primeiramente foram apontados alguns elementos que auxiliaram na consolidação do fluxo migratório criciumense para os Estados Unidos. Após uma breve análise da vivência destes brasileiros no exterior buscou-se evidenciar as dificuldades no retorno, pois para muitos retornar é mais difícil do que migrar. O retorno promove estranhamentos com quais, nem sempre os retornados conseguem lidar. O retorno também implica investimento e planejamento para o futuro. Assim, pode-se evidenciar a grande procura pela aquisição de bens imóveis deste grupo e o quanto esta procura alterou drasticamente a paisagem urbana criciumense. Ainda buscou-se investigar os rearranjos familiares desenvolvidos pelos familiares dos migrantes durante a ausência de seus entes, assim com apontar algumas dificuldades vivenciadas por estas famílias com os planos de retorno. De modo geral, esta análise nos possibilitou evidenciar algumas das conseqüências das migrações no local de origem dos fluxos, possibilitando-nos compreender melhor o universo do migrante e de seus familiares que ficam a sua espera

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-13T17:10:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 CarlosALC.pdf: 823965 bytes, checksum: 696779928427ae3da9d89112936f7423 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-11-04 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / Since the second semester of 2004, the first refugees guided by ACNUR arrived at Potiguar s territory. Then we follow closely, with other local actors, the implementation and development of this innovative action, namely the resettlement of those refugees in Rio Grande do Norte. To accomplish this, we consider the concepts of territory, dispossession, repossession and international migration. The state of Rio Grande do Norte is a pioneer in the Northeast, in this type of action, since, before this experience, just Rio Grande do Sul and S?o Paulo were engaged in this kind of action. Therefore, this paper analyzes the process of resettlement of refugees, fulfilled in Rio Grande do Norte, between 2004 and 2005. The research broaches the regards that resulted in departure of these refugees from their respective territories (Colombia and Palestine) as well as the characteristics and prospects of the areas that hosted the refugees (Natal, Lajes e Po?o Branco). Finally, the work deals with the results achieved afield, through interviews and photographic record, near by refugees / A partir do segundo semestre de 2004, chegaram os primeiros refugiados em territ?rio Potiguar, encaminhados pelo ACNUR, e acompanhamos, com outros agentes locais, a implementa??o e desenvolvimento desta a??o conjunta e inovadora, ou seja, o reassentamento dos referidos refugiados, em territ?rio potiguar. Para tanto, foram abordados os conceitos de territ?rio, desterritorializa??o, reterritorializa??o e migra??es internacionais. O Estado do Rio Grande do Norte ? pioneiro, na Regi?o Nordeste, neste tipo de a??o, uma vez que, antes desta experi?ncia, apenas outros Estados tais como Rio Grande do Sul e S?o Paulo, estavam engajados no que tange ? essa a??o. Sendo assim, o presente trabalho analisa o processo de reassentamento de refugiados, realizado no Rio Grande do Norte, entre 2004 e 2005. A pesquisa aborda os aspectos que resultaram na partida desses refugiados dos seus respectivos territ?rios de expuls?o (Col?mbia e Palestina), bem como as caracter?sticas e perspectivas das ?reas que acolheram os refugiados (Natal, Lajes e Po?o Branco). Por ?ltimo, o trabalho trata dos resultados logrados em campo, atrav?s de entrevistas e registro fotogr?fico, junto aos refugiados.

A história migratória compartilhada entre Brasil e Portugal foi marcada, durante séculos, pela vinda de portugueses para o Brasil. No entanto, nas últimas décadas, o Brasil, tradicional país de imigração, se transformou num país de emigração, sendo Portugal um dos países preferenciais de destino desta corrente migratória. Portugal, por sua vez, experimenta o movimento oposto: em paralelo aos movimentos populacionais de saída, assiste-se a uma crescente entrada de imigrantes em território português. A presente Dissertação de Mestrado tem por objetivo, portanto, compreender que fatores levaram a mudança na relação entre o Brasil e Portugal no que diz respeito aos fluxos migratórios entre estes dois países a partir da década de 1980. A metodologia empregada para o desenvolvimento desta pesquisa consistiu na leitura de bibliografia especializada no assunto e referente aos conceitos considerados norteadores deste trabalho (migração e redes sociais), além da realização de entrevistas com brasileiros que foram para Portugal depois do ano de 1980, visto que os mesmos configuram importantes fontes na apreensão de características específicas deste processo migratório. Para uma melhor compreensão deste fenômeno, centramos nossa atenção na análise de alguns elementos considerados explicativos desta mudança, como o próprio fenômeno da globalização. A situação econômica e política em que se encontrava o Brasil, no período caracterizado como a década perdida, também foi bastante esclarecedora dos fatores responsáveis pelo desencadeamento desta corrente emigratória. Já a compreensão do direcionamento desta corrente migratória para Portugal passou pela análise do contexto econômico deste país, de sua legislação de estrangeiros e do papel exercido pelas redes sociais consolidadas entre brasileiros e portugueses. Por fim, procuramos traçar um perfil desses migrantes, numa tentativa de compreender quem são estes brasileiros que migraram para Portugal a partir da década de 1980. Além de algumas características gerais da população brasileira em Portugal, como sua qualificação acadêmica e sua distribuição no território português, buscamos apreender como se processou a inserção dos imigrantes brasileiros no mercado de trabalho português, através do reconhecimento das principais profissões desempenhadas pelos mesmos. / The migratory history shared between Brazil and Portugal has been marked, for centuries, by the coming of Portuguese to Brazil. However, in recent decades, Brazil, traditional country of immigration, has become a country of emigration, Portugal being one of the preferred countries of destination of this migratory movement. Portugal, in turn, experiences the opposite movement: parallel to population movements in output, there has been a growing influx of immigrants into Portuguese territory. This masters thesis is aimed at, therefore, to understand what factors have led to the change in the relationship between Brazil and Portugal with regard to migration flows between the two countries from the 1980s. The methodology for this research consisted of reading relevant literature on the subject and referring to the guiding concepts in this work (migration and social networks), plus interviews with Brazilians who went to Portugal after the year 1980, whereas they make up important sources in the seizure of specific characteristics of this migratory process. For a better understanding of this phenomenon, we focus on the analysis of some explanatory factors noted this change, as the phenomenon of globalization. The economic and political situation that Brazil was in, in the period characterized as the "lost decade", was also quite enlightening of the factors responsible for the trigger of this emigration flow. The understanding of the direction of this migratory flow towards Portugal required the examination of the economic e political context of this country, its foreign legislation and the role played by social networks consolidated between Brazilians and Portuguese. Finally, we draw a profile of migrants in an attempt to understand who are these Brazilians who migrated to Portugal from the 1980s. Besides some general characteristics of the Brazilian population in Portugal, as their academic qualification and their distribution in the Portuguese territory, we tried to understand how the insertion of Brazilian immigrants in the Portuguese labor market occurred through the recognition of the main occupations performed by them.

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As migrações internacionais contemporâneas, ditas globais, têm sido tratadas como um problema ao qual as políticas migratórias dos Estados nacionais precisam dar uma solução. O enfoque desta tese busca desvelar a politização da construção dessas políticas em torno do conceito da irregularidade migratória e das transformações decorrentes da atual dinâmica transnacional das migrações, associada às subjetividades dos migrantes como prática política de transformação da cidadania nacional. Diante desse quadro os discursos patrocinados pelas Organizações Internacionais em torno da ideia de gestão das migrações se mostram nada transformadores em razão de seu caráter tecnocrático. No Brasil, os discursos referentes a uma política migratória baseada nos direitos humanos são predominantes, mas ainda não concretizados. Através de entrevistas com atores governamentais brasileiros busca-se aprofundar a análise sobre esta diretriz diante da amplitude das transformações que requer. Conclui-se que a cidadania sul-americana em construção, a partir do Acordo de Residência do Mercosul, tem características do que poderia vir a ser uma cidadania fundada no paradigma da mobilidade. / International migration has been considered a problem to be solved by national states\' national migration policies. The study aims at revealing the political aspects arising as a result of policy development around the concept of migration irregularity and of the changes arising on the transnational dynamics of migration associated with the immigrants` subjectivity as a political practice of citizenship transformation. The analysis has shown that the migration management discourse coming from the international organizations proves to be insufficient to any transformation due its technocratic features. In Brazil, even though the prevailing migratory policy discourse is based on human rights, policy implementation has yet to take place. Through interviews with Brazilian governmental actors it was intended to further the analysis on this directive due to the meaningful changes it requires. Conclusion reveal that the South American citizenship built upon the implementation of the Mercosur Residency Agreement presents some features of citizenship grounded on the mobility paradigm.