This website contains information about the research project ’Citizenship on the edge’. The project addresses the persistent citizenship deficits experienced by people in vulnerable positions despite efforts to overcome this problem.
The overall aim is to identify and theorize the social work practices that sustain or exacerbate these deficits, as well as those that overcome them. Based on a cultural citizenship approach, we examine this through fieldwork in social work settings targeting three different vulnerable groups: young offenders, homeless people, and children and young people with a psy-diagnosis.
The project explores the following questions:
- How is the lived citizenship of people in vulnerable positions shaped in everyday interactions between clients and social workers?
- How is the shaping of lived citizenship in everyday interactions conditioned by wider discursive constructions and power relations?
These questions are answered through the following sub-projects:
A. Young offenders in contact with social workers – A sense of belonging, difference-centered citizenship, participation and trust
B. Reaching out, pulling in: creating citizens?
C. Learning to manage life – lived citizenship of children and young people with a psy-diagnosis
The project is led by Professor Hanne Warming and is based at Roskilde University, Department of Society and Globalisation. Here it is affiliated with the research group ‘Changing Societies: Citizenship, Participation and Power’ (CSCPP). Postdoc Michael Christensen is responsible for Sub-project A, postdoc Kristian Fahnøe for Sub-project B and Hanne Warming for Sub-project C.
Read more about the research project and the sub-projects under ‘about the project’.
