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BAJT, Veronika, PAJNIK, Mojca. Civic Participation of Migrants: Prospects for Redefinitions of Citizenship

Rethinking citizenship, the paper tackles the complex interrelationship between the formal concepts of citizenship and the informal ways of practicing civic participation as modes of “active citizenship”. The paper develops a thesis that understanding migratory practices requires a broader understanding of citizenship that stretches beyond the mere legal and formally prescribed conditions of status acquisition.

B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference

COBISS.SI-ID: 684653

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PRIMTS, Prospects for Integration of Migrants from “Third countries” and their Labour Market Situations: Towards Policies and Action

The PRIMTS project considers precarious labour market positions of “third country nationals” and analyses these from the perspective of integration with the purpose to contribute to long-term benefits of migrants, particularly male and female workers in lower sectors of economy. A further objective is to establish proposals for comparable flexible integration policies at the EU level tailored to specific needs of migrants who are faced with deskilling and hardship in the labour market. Financed by European Commission, European Fund for the Integration of Third-Country Nationals (2008-2010)

D.01 Chairing over/coordinating (international and national) projects

COBISS.SI-ID: 760685

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Reinventing Migration Politics: Challenges to Racism and Xenophobia

The author argues that current migration and integration policies that are, as a rule, accompanied by populist rhetoric and anti-migration discourses sustain migrants in “rightless” positions where not only are their human rights not respected but they are not even admitted to claim their rights. Ensuring migrants the “right to have rights” is thematized as a precondition for any serious attempt to claim migrants’ integration as politics of equality, not exclusion.

B.04 Guest lecture

COBISS.SI-ID: 760941

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(Im)possibilities of Migrant's Social Citizenship

Drawing on the concept of social citizenship, the paper questions the contemporary rationale of migration and labour policies and of inequalities it produces. The potential value of social citizenship is explored in its relation to the increased securitization of migrants. Social citizenship is understood both as utopian imagery and a point of reference that facilitates the developing of the “needs discourse” pertaining to migrant populations.

B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference

COBISS.SI-ID: 761197