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Yener-Roderburg, Inci Öykü ORCID: 0000-0001-9698-1058 and Toivanen, Mari ORCID: 0000-0001-7308-571X (2024). Transnational citizenship: political practices of Kurdish migrants’ descendants in France and Germany. Citizenship Studies, 28. pp. 1-21. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. ISSN 1469-3593

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Item Type:	Journal Article
Translated abstract:	Abstract Language Over the last decades, scholars have increasingly called for the ‘deterritorialization’ of the notion of citizenship. The realities concerning citizenship have changed with new expressions of transnationalism. However, whereas the main body of research has focused on the transnational aspects of citizenship among migrants in the form of their transnational political practices and dual nationalities, their descendants have received far less attention. This paper examines the political practices of Kurdish migrants’ descendants in France and Germany and their narratives of identity and citizenship. We employ migrant descendants’ political activism as an empirical entry point to gain insight into the meanings they attach to citizenship. The paper draws from two qualitative datasets collected in France (2015–2017) and Germany (2015–2023) with individuals of Kurdish background, who were born to migrant families arriving from Turkey in the 1980s and 1990s. The findings show that national contexts – both in grandparents’/parents’ country of departure and the country of arrival – and the transnational, diasporic and even supranational space (EU) shape migrant descendants’ political activism, identity construction and consequently resonate in the meanings they attach to citizenship. This study highlights the need to approach migrants’ descendants as transnational citizens in their own right. English
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Yener-Roderburg, Inci Öykü lyenerro@uni-koeln.de orcid.org/0000-0001-9698-1058 UNSPECIFIED Toivanen, Mari UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-7308-571X UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-733606
DOI:	10.1080/13621025.2024.2384369
Journal or Publication Title:	Citizenship Studies
Volume:	28
Page Range:	pp. 1-21
Date:	4 August 2024
Publisher:	Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
ISSN:	1469-3593
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Management, Economy and Social Sciences
Divisions:	Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Political Science > Cologne Center for Comparative Politics
Subjects:	Social sciences Political science
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/73360