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Reproducing the 'national home': gendering domopolitics

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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>2018
<mark>Journal</mark>Citizenship Studies
Issue number1
Volume22
Number of pages18
Pages (from-to)1-18
Publication StatusPublished
Early online date24/11/17
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

Walters developed the concept of domopolitics to refer to the ways in which the securitisation of migration contributes to the construction of the UK as a ‘national home’. Domopolitical policies and discourses produce the UK as the ‘national home’ of ‘neoliberal citizens’; they thus serve as tools of neoliberal governmentality, disciplining both citizens and migrants into displaying qualities associated with neoliberal citizenship, especially economic productivity. However, the concept of ‘home’ has a particular genealogy within liberal discourses of citizenship. As Pateman contends, the political ‘public’ sphere of liberal citizenship is constructed in opposition to an apolitical ‘private’ sphere. The public sphere has been coded as the domain of men, while women have been relegated to the private ‘home’. Consequently, women have been deemed responsible for the reproduction of both the private, and the ‘national’ home, a construction which has persisted under neoliberalism. While often superficially gender-neutral, domopolitics actually relies upon, and reinforces, these gendered understandings of neoliberal citizenship. Domopolitical policies and discourses construct migrant women’s reproductive practices as a legitimate and necessary site of state intervention, disciplining migrant women to ensure they ‘correctly’ reproduce the neoliberal ‘national home.’

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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Citizenship Studies on 24/11/2017, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13621025.2017.1406455