چکیده (انگلیسی):

Contemporary analyses of citizenship emphasise the importance of being able to occupy public space in a manner that does
not compromise one’s sense of self. Moreover, they foreground individuals’ active engagement with others (e.g., being
concerned about others) and the active exercise of one’s rights. We explore such issues through considering the psychological
and social significance of having one’s various self-definitions mis-recognised in everyday social interactions. We do so through
reporting interview and focus group data obtained from Scottish Muslims concerning their experience of surveillance at airports.
Focussing on their accounts of how they orient to others’ assumptions about Muslim passengers, we consider what this means
for our participants’ ability to act on terms that they recognise as their own and for their citizenship behaviours. Our analysis
is organised in two sections. First, we examine the strategies people use to avoid painful encounters inside the airport. These
include changes in micro-behaviours designed to avert contact, and where this was not possible, identity performances that
are, in various ways, inauthentic. Second, we examine citizenship-related activities and how these may be curtailed in the
airport. These include activities that entail the individual reaching out and making positive connections with others (e.g., through
helping others) and exercising the right to criticise and complain about one’s treatment. Our analyses highlight the psychological
and social consequence of identity misrecognition, and how this impacts on individuals’ abilities to act in terms of their own
valued identifications and enact citizenship behaviours.