CITIZENSHIP PROCESSES AND MIGRATION PHENOMENA IN EUROPE

The three chapters in this section consider some of the ways that citizenship borders are erected and with what implications. The chapters discuss the interrelated topics of immigration, welfare rights under neoliberalism, and precariousness, across three different contexts in the Global North and South. Below I draw out the chapters’ key contributions and, taking them as a point of departure, I discuss, in the second section, four themes which illustrate the complex manners through which citizenship is managed, policed and “bordered” in relation to immigration. These issues are worthy of further interrogation in the interdisciplinary study of citizenship by social psychologists and other scholars in the field.