The field of Critical Citizenship Studies (CCS) has thus far focussed predominantly on first-generation-migrants practices of resistance. These subjects are viewed as making a claim over ‘citizenship’ through acts of marching and voicing descent. This account of ‘resistance’ and ‘protest’ is understood as that which is public and organised. This can obscure marginal site from which intergenerational migrants –neither subjects without/with status – ‘protest' the spaces of citizenship in less public and less organised ways. This paper will explore ways in which intergenerational migrants resist against the taken for granted space of ‘citizenship’, through fashion, music, language, in-group affiliation. This often challenges 1) The realms of intelligible citizenship: as a relationship to the state; 2) What it means to ‘protest’ against/within citizenship through organised action. It will argue that marginal sites of resistance challenge how we have already come to understand what it means to ‘protest’ against/within citizenship.
