| Abstrakt: |
The media often talk about irregular migration, especially about »illegal« border crossings that sometimes end fatally. The situation of sans-papiers living in cities and towns, sometimes for many years, has been ignored for a long time. This should change in the future. The internationally discussed concept of »urban citizenship«, which has its roots in the Anglo- American literature of the early 1990s, has recently gained in importance in German-speaking countries and is currently being discussed in Switzerland. This article approaches the urban citizenship debate from an anthropological perspective. It shows how the rights related to participation and belonging to an urban environment, regardless of ethnic and national origin or residence status are redesigned by local actors, and how rigid understanding of citizenship is expanded through convergence of activist practices and urban policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
