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Geo-politics and Citizenship: Why Geography Matters in Defining Social Citizenship Rights of Canadian-Muslim Youth

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This chapter undertakes a theoretical analysis of social citizenship of Canadian-Muslim youth. The focus will be on spatial aspects of social citizenship as it impinges on everyday experiences of lived citizenship revealing the socio-political relations and processes of exclusion/inclusion that exist in material space. Spatial analysis of globalisation unsettles taken-for-granted assumptions of nation states as natural and re-casts social citizenship as transnational. Spatial analysis of Muslim identities reveals processes that reverse minority/majority identity formations due to global geopolitics. Spatial analysis of care as a set of practices challenges hierarchical scalar notions of space by centreing sociality rather than proximity as the basis of care and social citizenship.

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Moosa-Mitha, M. (2017). Geo-politics and Citizenship: Why Geography Matters in Defining Social Citizenship Rights of Canadian-Muslim Youth. In: Warming, H., Fahnøe, K. (eds) Lived Citizenship on the Edge of Society. Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55068-8_11

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