ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the perceptions of citizenship through the eyes of minority youth in London and Berlin. The first part of the chapter examines the reasons that they might naturalise. These responses include seeing citizenship as a resource, feeling a sense of belonging to the country, and engaging with a civic identity. The second half of the chapter examines how citizenship is undermined by ethnic markers and a sense of marginalisation. Moreover, these individuals are subjected to a ‘valuisation’ process as their identity intersects with national and international hierarchies of exclusion.
