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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. Fortiers distinctive theory of citizenisation foregrounds how the full achievement of citizenship is a promise that is always deferred: if migrants and citizens are continuously citizenised, so too are they migratised. Citizenisation and migratisation are intimately linked within the structures of racial governmentality that enables the citizenship of racially minoritised citizens to be questioned and that casts them as perpetual migrants. Drawing on multi-sited fieldwork with migrants applying for citizenship or settlement and with intermediaries of the state tasked with implementing citizenisation measures and policies, Fortier brings life to the waiting room of citizenship, giving rich empirical backing to her original theoretical claims. 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.

Uncertain citizenships nuanced account of the social and institutional function of citizenisation and migratisation offers its readers a grasp of the array of racial inequalities that citizenisation produces and reproduces, while providing theoretical and empirical tools to address these inequalities.

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Uncertain citizenship
Uncertain citizenship Life in the waiting room Anne-Marie Fortier Manchester - photo 1
Uncertain citizenship
Life in the waiting room
Anne-Marie Fortier
Manchester University Press
Copyright Anne-Marie Fortier 2021
The right of Anne-Marie Fortier to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Published by Manchester University Press
Altrincham Street, Manchester M1 7JA
www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN978 1 5261 3908 5hardback
First published 2021
The publisher has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for any external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate.
Cover credit:
Melanie Friend, from Border Country. The Domestic Visits, Harmondsworth IRC (Heathrow), July 2006
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Abbey Akanbi, Manchester University Press
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For migrant men and women living in precarious conditions, who wait and persist in the waiting room of uncertain citizenships. Their life in the waiting room is telling of the potentialities of a world of full inclusion.
And for Monique Salvas Fortier
It seems ages since I attended the citizenship ceremony where I became a British citizen in 2011. The process leading up to that piqued my curiosity and led me down the long journey to this monograph. So much has changed since then. Yet what remains unchanged is the generosity and kindness of strangers and the love and dependability of my family and friends.
In the course of researching for this book, I had the pleasure of meeting several migrants living in the North West and other parts of England, all of whom took the time to speak to me and tell me their stories. I am immensely grateful for their openness and willingness to meet with me and share their stories. They were not all in the same position, with some forced to persist and hope against hope in the face of perpetual uncertainty and precarity. They are a reminder of the uneven distribution of the good life, within and across national borders. But their life in the waiting room is also telling of what a world of full inclusion could look like.
I am also full of gratitude for the language teachers, registrars, dignitaries and other institutional actors I met for their time, for inviting me into their workspaces and into ceremony rooms, and for sharing their own stories. These individuals are variously conscripted in the dispersed governance of citizenisation. Their compassion and care at times defied the punitive state that they variously represented, mediated or served. They confirm the extent to which the state is not a unified entity that operates uniformly. Rather, they are the living proof that these intermediaries of the state have a fuller personhood and more agency than they are often granted when they are viewed solely as agents of the state.
I only hope that this volume does justice to the accounts of these various inhabitants of the waiting room of citizenship.
. My PhD students, for their part, have been and remain a constant source of learning and inspiration.
I have had the privilege of conversing with colleagues and students at Lancaster and beyond, some of whom read draft articles or other writings related to this project, and all of whose insights undoubtedly made this a better book: Les Back, Leah Bassell, Bridget Byrne, Katrien De Graeve, Sabine Gatt, Shona Hunter, Engin Isin, Danielle Juteau, Kamran Khan, Lidia Kuzemska, Gail Lewis, Katariina Mkinen, Maureen McNeil, Kate Nash, Loredana Polezzi, Ben Rogaly, Riita Rossi, Sarah Scuzzarello, Tasneem Sharkawi, Divya Tolia-Kelly, Imogen Tyler, Neil Washbourne, Claire Waterton, Elke Winter, Joanne Wood. I shall forever cherish the salon-sessions with Darcey Leigh, Melanie Richter-Montpetit and Cynthia Weber, where we'd write and talk in retreat conditions, and I look forward to repeat sessions if and when the world opens up again. Special thanks to my critical friends who closely read draft chapters of the book: Bridget Anderson, Anne Cronin, Jonathan Darling, Breda Gray, Djordje Sredanovic, Ruth Wodak.
reviewers of the book proposal and manuscript, whose supportive and critical comments provided useful guidance. A big thank you to Tom Dark from Manchester University Press for believing in this project from the start. His understanding of the broader disciplinary debates made him an astute editor, and his guidance and patience throughout were invaluable. I am also very grateful to Humairaa Dudhwala for her impeccable management of the final production process, which made it as painless and smooth as can be.
This book would not have materialised without the funding from the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust, or without sabbatical leaves provided by the Sociology Department at Lancaster University. In the very early stages of this research, I had the great fortune of spending time as visiting fellow at the Gender Institute (GI) at the LSE, where I was so warmly welcomed by Clare Hemmings, then Head of the GI, and by Hazel Johnstone, the Department manager. I have fond memories of lively exchanges in seminars but also around coffee and tea in the GI offices. One highlight of my stay at the GI was enjoying gelato and conversations in equal measure with Wendy Sigle as we wandered the London streets on hot summer days.
I also had the great pleasure of being hosted as a visiting fellow by the Sussex Centre for Migration Research (SCMR), at the University of Sussex. Special thanks go to Paul Statham for his hospitality and for giving me the opportunity to present my work. The SCMR weekly seminars provided me with a welcome outing from my bolthole, and refuelled me with the pleasures of academic dialogue, questioning and exchange. I am also thankful for the invitations to present this research and to test ideas as I developed them. I was deeply touched by the warm welcome I received on all occasions and deeply appreciative of the conversations that ensued. Thank you to colleagues at the following universities: Birkbeck, Birmingham, Cambridge, Cardiff, City (London), Copenhagen, Durham, Edge Hill, Helsinki, Lancaster, Leeds, LSE, Manchester, Oslo, Ottawa, Salzburg, SOAS, Sorbonne, Vienna, Warwick.
Beyond academic circles, I am grateful to Autograph ABP, a London-based arts gallery, for inviting me to take part in their Exit series of public lectures. I am also very grateful to the wonderful artist Laura Malacart and fellow academic Bridget Byrne for inviting me to collaborate with them on an exhibition about the citizenship test at the Manchester Central Library.
My friends and family have grounded me with their constant and steadfast support, and I am forever thankful for their patience as I hunkered down when a window of time opened up and disappeared for a bit, or for their kindness in hearing me go on and on about the book. But more than anything, I am simply grateful for their friendship and love. My mother, Monique, the mamma, touched many people's lives with her kindness, compassion and care. She taught me a lot, not least the delights of freezing things. It was a shock to lose her so suddenly two months before completing this manuscript. I miss our regular phone calls, the singing of old French songs and her unparalleled sense of humour that had us in stitches she still makes me laugh, even in her absence.
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