Citizen Pledges and National Values: Narrating and Racializing Australian Citizenship

Anne Macduff

doi:10.6092/unibo/amsacta/6589

Citizen Pledges and National Values: Narrating and Racializing Australian Citizenship

Anne Macduff

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The pledge of commitment is a central element of Australian citizenship. This paper explores how the performance of the pledge narrates the citizen subject. It argues that the citizen subject is narrated as embodying three national values: loyalty, unity and social cohesion. This paper then argues that these values are racially coded. Narrating Australian citizenship in this way creates a more precarious form of citizenship for migrants generally, and Muslims in particular. The paper concludes by encouraging legal scholars to be more critical of citizenship law, paying particular attention to the narration of the citizen subject at ceremonial occasions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Citizenship pledges and national values: narrating and racializing Australian citizenship status
Editors	F Di Donato, C Faralli, A C F Silvestre, J Gaakeer and S Howe
Place of Publication	Bologna, ITALY
Publisher	Italian Society for Law and Literature
Pages	105-117
ISBN (Print)	9788854970403
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.6092/unibo/amsacta/6589
Publication status	Published - 2020
Event	IVR World Congress 2019 Dignity, Democracy Diversity - University of Lucerne, Lucerne Switzerland Duration: 1 Jan 2019 → … http://www.lawandliterature.org/index.php?channel=PAPERS

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Conference	IVR World Congress 2019 Dignity, Democracy Diversity
Period	1/01/19 → …
Other	8-12 July 2019
Internet address	http://www.lawandliterature.org/index.php?channel=PAPERS

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Macduff, A 2020, Citizen Pledges and National Values: Narrating and Racializing Australian Citizenship. in FDDCFACFSJGASH (ed.), Citizenship pledges and national values: narrating and racializing Australian citizenship status. Italian Society for Law and Literature, Bologna, ITALY, pp. 105-117, IVR World Congress 2019 Dignity, Democracy Diversity, 1/01/19. https://doi.org/10.6092/unibo/amsacta/6589

Citizen Pledges and National Values: Narrating and Racializing Australian Citizenship. / Macduff, Anne.
Citizenship pledges and national values: narrating and racializing Australian citizenship status. ed. / F Di Donato, C Faralli, A C F Silvestre, J Gaakeer and S Howe. Bologna, ITALY: Italian Society for Law and Literature, 2020. p. 105-117.

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