Migration and citizenship studies tend to conceive of naturalization and of citizenship ceremonies as highly ambivalent procedures. They simultaneously include and exclude migrants by granting full membership to certain migrants while separating them from national-born and other migrant citizens. Yet, existing studies with their focus on the inclusion/exclusion divide tend to overlook another key dimension of citizenship ceremonies. I argue that citizenship ceremonies should be understood as techniques of subject-formation that aim at the modification and optimization of the self-understanding and behaviour of newly-naturalized citizens by confronting them with specific expectations. Based on a Critical Discourse Analysis of ceremony speeches observed in four locations in the United Kingdom and in Germany, this article demonstrates that local state representatives encourage naturalized citizens to transform themselves to become a political, economic and cultural asset to the nation-state. In other words, ceremony speakers suggest that naturalized citizens adopt a specific kind of subjectivity which I term—in allusion to its overstraining character—the Super Citizen. My analysis shows that, although the speech is the least regulated element in both the British and the German ceremonies, the subjectivity of the Super Citizen crosses regional and national borders as speakers in all four locations engaged in the call for the Super Citizen. This finding not only questions the predominant categorization in the literature of the UK and Germany as representing ‘civic’ versus ‘ethnic’ models of citizenship. It also points to the transnational prevalence of neo-liberal and neo-national discourses in which the Super Citizen subjectivity is deeply entangled.

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呼吁超级公民：英国和德国的公民仪式作为主体形成技术

移民和公民研究倾向于将入籍和公民仪式视为高度矛盾的程序。它们通过授予某些移民的正式成员资格同时将他们与本国出生的和其他移民公民分开来同时包括和排除移民。然而，关注包容/排斥鸿沟的现有研究往往忽略了公民仪式的另一个关键方面。我认为公民仪式应该被理解为主体形成技术，旨在通过面对特定的期望来修正和优化新入籍公民的自我理解和行为。基于对在英国和德国四个地点观察到的仪式演讲的批判性话语分析，本文表明，地方国家代表鼓励入籍公民将自己转变为民族国家的政治、经济和文化资产。换句话说，仪式发言人建议归化公民采用一种特定的主体性，我称之为超级公民——暗指其过度紧张的特性。我的分析表明，尽管演讲在英国和德国的仪式中都是最不受监管的元素，但超级公民的主体性跨越了地区和国界，因为所有四个地点的发言人都在呼吁超级公民。这一发现不仅质疑英国和德国文献中的主要分类，因为它们代表了“公民”与“种族”公民模型。