Encountering Bureaucracy, Imaginaries, and Address: Understanding Citizenship through Lived Lives

The vast majority of approaches to ‘citizenship as status’ see the concept as static and often use binary modes of categorisation and analysis, such as that between citizen and non-citizen. These accounts are problematic on several fronts; firstly, they obscure the diversity of encounters that occur in the context of citizenship, and secondly, they regard the concept as relatively unchanging. By focusing on the ways that citizenship is encountered within lived lives, this thesis provides a novel approach to the study of citizenship that can better grasp the fluidity as well as the transformative capacities of the emergent encounters that make up individuals’ ongoing negotiations of citizenship. Using fifty in-depth qualitative interviews conducted in Australia and Greece with multiple citizenship status holders, I interrogate the ways in which encounters with bureaucracy, imaginaries and acts of imagination, as well as encounters of address, create, shape, and rupture conceptions of citizenship as status. More specifically, by applying an alternative methodological approach and highlighting the role of both repetition and rupture, this thesis illustrates, in the first instance, how these transformative encounters with bureaucracy are more than just ‘gates’ that one passes through, but how they resonate far beyond their immediate contexts. Secondly, in building on the literature on the subject of imaginaries, I consider the diversity of ways in which citizenship comes to be imagined, and the importance of seeing these acts of imagination as both personal and collective, while retaining the possibilities of non-determinist outcomes. Finally, I interrogate the role and impact of addressing and being addressed in the context of citizenship, and the ways that these speech acts come to situate us within the world, but also how they account, at least in part, for the ceaseless transformations of citizenship itself. This thesis illustrates how it is through such ongoing and personal negotiations, that citizenship emerges within lived lives

Exclusion in the interests of inclusion: who should stay offline in the emerging world of online justice?

England and Wales are in the middle of an ambitious court reform programme, a key element of which is the shift to more online hearings in appropriate cases. This raises a series of new questions for the judiciary, not least of which is whether there are circumstances in which a video hearing is unsuitable because a key participant is not able to engage effectively online. This article considers current thinking about the circumstances in which a case should be excluded from the list of online proceedings and compares judicial approaches to what we know of digital disadvantage from the social science literature. The authors draw on emerging judicial statements about threshold competencies, and original research with court staff, regular participants in court hearings and lay users. It is argued that the complex dynamics of digital disadvantage are frequently misunderstood and underestimated. This article makes clear the need for a more in-depth consideration of the multiple ways in which digital disadvantage manifests itself beyond a lack of equipment or skills. In doing so it raises critical questions about what we mean by user perspectives and how the voices of users are being heard

The (Re)-Invention of traditional: national mythology in the greek diaspora.

This paper seeks to explore the ‘diaspora experience’ of ‘living here while belonging there’ by considering the role that culture and tradition play in identity construction. This will be done with specific reference to the Greeks in Australia. After an analysis of the existing scholarship, several key ‘theatres’ of culture and tradition in the diaspora will be considered. These include national day celebrations, the role of education, the home, music and dance, as well as experiences of return. The issues that emerge from these events and practices will be considered and analysed in greater depth, examining various elements including the creation of identity and the effects of generational differences within the community; the way in which culture is used by both the diaspora as well as home and host states; and finally the problems associated with our propensity to understand identity as falling into national categories

Social media, mobile phones and migration in Africa: a review of the evidence

The role of new technologies, including mobile phones and social media, in migration moved to the fore during the European migrant crisis in 2015. Images of Syrians fleeing civil war, along with Iraqis and Afghans, guided by their mobile phones became common in the international media. While much has been made about the importance of mobile phones for migrants, including by humanitarian organizations, what evidence do we have about the role such technologies have in migration, particularly for migrants in, and from, Africa? This article uses a semi-systematic approach to evaluate the strength of the evidence around the use (or not) of mobile phones and social media in the migratory pathways of Africans, primarily to Europe. This includes detailed systematic database searches, submissions from experts such as academics and practitioners as well as the use of snowball citation searches. We argue that given the intensity of the claims affirming the role of new technologies in migration, the evidence remains surprisingly anecdotal and weak. In short, the use of mobile phones, and social media, on migratory pathways cannot be generalized and further investigation is urgently required to better determine whether, and how, such technologies are shaping and transforming migration in the ways so frequently argued

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Taha Toros Arşivi, Dosya Adı: Müzisyenlerİstanbul Kalkınma Ajansı (TR10/14/YEN/0033) İstanbul Development Agency (TR10/14/YEN/0033

Designing for inclusion: How to produce inclusive materials for advice sector clients

Front line advice workers are experts in knowing what information to give to people and communities. Drawing on good practice in the sector, this guide focuses on how to best present advice and information in ways that are accessible and easy to understand. This guide has been designed with the needs of smaller organisations in mind, especially those who may not have a dedicated communications officer or team. It is designed to be brief but contains many links to further resources including specialist national organisations

EURO-EXPERT: France Data Summary

International audienceThe outputs of EURO-EXPERT include academic publications, CULTEXP - the first multilingual and cross-jurisdictional database on cultural expertise, data visualisation of in-court and out-of-court cultural expertise, a toolkit for the use of cultural expertise, and publications for the general public. This dataset is the EUROEXPERT data summary for France

EURO-EXPERT: Cyprus Data Summary

International audienceThe outputs of EURO-EXPERT include academic publications, CULTEXP - the first multilingual and cross-jurisdictional database on cultural expertise, data visualisation of in-court and out-of-court cultural expertise, a toolkit for the use of cultural expertise, and publications for the general public. This dataset is the EUROEXPERT data summary for Cyprus