Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this article analyses the recent phenomenon of the mass search for Russian citizenship by Tajikistani nationals and critically engages with the emerging concept of strategic citizenship. Bringing together the literature on strategic citizenship and affective documents, it argues that the notion of strategy is incomplete and can be misleading when used to analyse citizenship seeking. Drawing an opposition between ‘rational’ and ‘emotional’ aspects of citizenship, there is a danger in looking at strategising through the assumptions grounded in formal rationality placing a rational individual seeking to ‘maximise utility’ through their citizenship choices at the centre of analysis. My ethnography shows that grounded in the local systems of value, practices of citizenship‐seeking go far beyond the calculative logic of cost–benefit analysis and should be theorised in the context of family projects and subsequent ideas about social becoming. It also shows that acts of taking citizenship emerge as affective responses of people trying to figure out what is the ‘rational’ thing to do in the context of uncertainty and instability of labour markets, mobility regulations and documentary regimes, affects being distributed not only in persons and their relations but in and around documents.

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战略公民的局限性：塔吉克斯坦移民背景下与俄罗斯护照的情感交往

在广泛的民族志田野调查的基础上，本文分析了塔吉克斯坦国民大举寻求俄罗斯公民身份的最新现象，并批判性地涉及了新兴的战略公民身份概念。综合有关战略公民身份和情感文件的文献，它认为战略概念是不完整的，在用于分析寻求公民身份时可能会产生误导。在公民的“理性”和“情感”方面形成对立时，通过形式合理性进行假设来进行战略制定存在危险，这种理性假设将理性的个体通过其公民身份选择寻求“最大化效用”作为分析的中心。我的人种志显示，扎根于当地的价值体系，寻求公民身份的实践远远超出了成本效益分析的计算逻辑，应该在家庭项目和随后的关于社会变迁的思想的背景下进行理论化。它还表明，采取公民身份的行为是人们的情感反应，他们试图弄清在劳动力市场的不确定性和不稳定，流动性法规和文件制度的情况下要做的“理性”事情，不仅影响到人员及其关系，但在文档中和文档周围。