Uncertain citizenship: Life in the waiting room

Uncertainty Is Central To The Governance Of Citizenship, But In Ways That Erase, Even Deny, This Uncertainty. This Book Investigates Uncertain Citizenship From The Unique Vantage Point Of 'citizenisation' : Twenty-first-century Integration And Naturalisation Measures That Make And Unmake Citizens And Migrants, While Indefinitely Holding Many Applicants For Citizenship In What Fortier Calls The 'waiting Room Of Citizenship'. Fortier's Distinctive Theory Of Citizenisation Foregrounds How The Full Achievement Of Citizenship Is A Promise That Is Always Deferred : If Migrants And New Citizens Are Continuously Citizenised, So Too Are They Migratised. Scrutinising Life In The Waiting Room Enables Fortier To Analyse How Citizenship Takes Place, Takes Time And Takes Hold In Ways That Conform, Exceed And Confound Frames Of Reference Laid Out In Both Citizenisation Policies And Taken-for-granted Understandings Of 'the Citizen' And 'the Migrant'. Introduction - Uncertain Citizenship -- Scene 1 - Researching Citizenisation -- The World Of Citizenisation : Life In The Waiting Room -- Citizenising Britain -- Scene 2 - Documents, Stories, Pictures -- The Documented Citizen -- Scene 3 - Conversing With Anglophones -- The Speaking Citizen -- Scene 4 - Becoming Citizen -- The Becoming Citizen -- Conclusion - Lessons From The Waiting Room : Citizenisation And Migratisation. Anne-marie Fortier. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.