Migrants, Minorities, Belongings and Citizenship. Glocalization and ...

objectives, these three strategies of measurement and scaling have together served as
effective tools in our search for inclusive citizenship practices. In future research, they
will also be able to help provide strong indications for when and where portability of best
practices of citizenship may be feasible.
2.1.2. A Short presentation of QC-CITSCALE
This tool comprises the operationalized forms of the variables in: (1) a qualitative
questionnaire, which can also be quantified and (2) two interview guides (one for
organizational elites and one for attendants of glocal spaces). In both QC-CITKIT and QC-
CITSCALE, the decided strategy for measurement, scaling and comparison are included in
an integrated form. QC-CITSCALE is designed in such a way that measurements of
variables can be done with respect to three scales, which have three separate and
different “null” points. We call these three measurement methods “absolute
measurement”, “relative measurement” and “normative measurement”.
The concept of “quality of citizenships” entails a variety of normative connotations and,
thus, can be defined and measured in multiple ways. The existing approaches to quality
of citizenship are largely singular and reflect certain normative orientations. The
outcomes of such singular approaches are generally singular measurement strategies and
uni-dimensional scales. Glocalmig goes beyond such existing normatively singular
research frames and devises tools for measuring the quality of citizenship in multiple
ways. Each of the aforementioned sets, therefore, comprises measurement methods and
scales based on three separate but inter-relatable and novel strategies of measurement
and scale construction: (1) Absolute-values measurement and scaling, (2) relative-values
measurement and scaling, (3) normative-values measurement and scaling.
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