01533nam a22001577a 4500 522617 522617 230429b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Macduff, Anne 40180 Performing legal and national identities: Australian citizenship ceremonies and the management of cultural diversity Social and Legal Studies 32(2), Apr, 2023: p.197-215 Academic scholarship analyses how citizenship law reforms such as longer residency requirements and tougher language tests reinforce culturally exclusionary national narratives. Citizenship ceremonies however, have largely escaped scholarly attention. Drawing on Australia as a case study, this article addresses that gap. After examining how Australian citizenship is performed at ceremonies, this article argues that although the government states that citizenship ceremonies should welcome new citizens, deep suspicions about the cultural diversity of migrants are also conveyed. This paper contributes to an understanding of how citizenship ceremonies reinforce culturally exclusionary national narratives, even where the legal criteria for acquiring citizenship status is non-discriminatory. This paper also illustrates how citizenship ceremonies are important sites for the construction and communication of legal identities. – Reproduced Ceremony, Citizenship status, Cultural diversity, Law, National identity, Performance. 38045 Social and Legal Studies CITIZENSHIP AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 397631 IIPA IIPA 2023-04-29 32(2), Apr, 2023: p.197-215 AR128715 2023-04-29 AR