The rise of international marriage and cross-national families in Asia has resulted in diversified pathways to citizenship within families. While the emerging scholarship has focused on marriage migrants’ citizenship negotiations, less attention has been given to the citizenship pathways of the next generation. This paper centres on 55 children from cross-national families with a Singaporean and non-Singaporean parent, from a range of ethnicities and socio-economic class. The children, aged 10–25, may hold either single (solely Singaporean or another nationality) or dual citizenship status. We give attention to how these children engage with ascribed citizenship status and navigate between the “strategic” value and the “affective” valence of citizenship as they grow older and gain more autonomy in (re-)shaping their own citizenship projects. Unpacking nuances in young people’s citizenship projects also acknowledges the underlying vectors of gender, race and class in children’s own and their parents’ negotiation of citizenship matters.

Bernice Loh, Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Theodora Lam, and Esther C. L. Goh, Citizenship Pathways of Children with Cross-National Parents: Strategic and Affective Contemplations of Citizenship Choice, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2025.