Vera-Larrucea, Constanza, 2013. Citizenship by Citizens: First generation nationals with Turkish ancestry on lived citizenship in Paris and Stockholm. Stockholm Studies in Politics 150 (original) (raw)

The Contemporary Debate on Citizenship

Revus, 2009

"Citizenship is the right to have rights" was famously claimed by Hannah Arendt. he case of the Slovenian erased sheds new light on this assumption that was supposedly put to rest ater World War II. We lack a comprehensive paradigm for grasping what citizenship means today in, and for, our societies. My thesis is that there are currently three ways to understand the notion. hese diferent views tend to merge and overlap in today's debate, furthering misunderstandings. I will account for the diferent conceptions of citizenship by looking at the opposite of citizenry. he political model holds the subject (sujet) in opposition to the citizen (citoyen), entailing problems related to the democratic quality of institutions. Law and jurisprudence look at citizenship by trying to limit the numerous hard cases arising in a world of migration where the opposite of the citizen is the alien and the stateless. While in social science citizenship is the opposite of exclusion and represents social membership, my aim is therefore to distinguish and clear out these three diferent semantic areas. his essay is presented in four sections: First, I briely recall the case of the erased. he second section focuses on discourse analysis so as to enucleate the three diferent meanings of citizenship that we ind in the current debate according to the prevailing disciplinary ields: political, legal and social sciences. hirdly, attention will be directed to the composition of the diferent semantic areas that are connected to the term citizenship. I suggest that we are now dealing with a threefold notion. Finally, I will point to an array of questions that citizenship raises in today's complex society and try to show how this tri-partition of the meaning of "citizenship" can be a useful device for decision makers so as to design as consistent policies as possible.

The Concept and Theories of Citizenship in a wake of critical distinctions between Nationality and Citizenship

2021

The concept of citizenship and it's correlation to nationality is certainly sui generis. The very essence of this concept of citizenship circumvents the possibility of membership in the intangible legal community of the nation which oftenly needs the intervention of theories of citizenship attached thereon. In this regard, the bond between a state and a citizen cannot be ignored, as it brings about the inherency and entitlement between a state and its persons. In any jurisdiction, the legal nature of citizenship tells of an antidote of the relationship between rights and duties and the corresponding obligations by states by virtue of the sovereignty of a people. In the end, this doesn't befit any other description other than the right to own rights in that jurisdiction obligatory upon the state to fulfill them. That in essence is the concept of citizenship that this paper will interrogate.

Citizenships under Construction: Affects, Politics and Practices

COLLeGIUM, 2017

‘Citizenships under Construction: Affects, Politics and Practices’ presents a selection of extended papers presented at the HCAS Symposium on Citizenship and Migration, held in October 2014. With contributions by Anne Marie Fortier, Bridget Byrne, Anu Koivunen and Olli Löytty, the volume aims to further interdisciplinary dialogue on citizenship in the context of increased global migration. It provides unique insight into the ongoing theorization of the complicated workings of power and affects in constructions of race, gender and class, in the shaping of narratives of history and nation, and in the creation of hierarchies of belonging and deservedness.

Philosophical and legal sources of citizenship

Visnik Nacional’nogo universitetu «Lvivska politehnika». Seria: Uridicni nauki, 2017

The present paper is offering a short account of citizenship, its history, its constitution and its main theoretical approaches. It is divided in four principal sections. The first, examines the two main theories of citizenship in their historical and normative context, thus the republican and liberal approach of citizenship as they were formed in the ancient Greek and Roman tradition, as well as in their current feminist critic. The second part focuses in the analyses of what seems up until now to be the most influential work on citizenship, the essay of the British sociologist, Thomas Humphrey Marshall "Citizenship and Social class", which was published in 1950 and since then it is considered to be the stepping stone of the international literature on citizenship. The third part presents the "constitution" of citizenship, the elements of which the notion of citizen is crafted, thus membership in a certain political community, rights and the ability of democratic participation. Finally, the last part examines the modern apprehension of citizenship, its supranational dynamic, its ability to act as a means of integration and coercion in the modern liberal democracies, while theories of pluralism, cosmopolitanism and post-nationalism are taken into account. Instead of conclusions, the paper is closing with a short postscript concerning the fallacies and prospects of a European citizenship.

Citizenship Today: Global Perspectives and Practices

The American Journal of International Law, 2002

This book is the second of three volumes on contemporary citizenship produced by the Carnegie Endowment's International Migration Project. According to one of its editors, Douglas Klusmeyer, citizenship has become 'the primary category by which people are classified' and, thus, provides 'the main thematic link connecting far ranging policy domains' from welfare and multic ulturalism to international relations and migration (p. 1). The project is a timely and ambitious programme that not only endeavours to display the wide array of policy areas pertaining to citizenship but also sets out to aid policy making by providing specific recommendations.

Symposium on citizenship: Foreword

International Journal of Constitutional Law, 2010

Symposium guest editors This symposium explores the extent and constitutional signifi cance of the changes that are taking place in the conception and practice of citizenship in countries throughout the world. The six papers reveal a preoccupation with broadly similar issues in the regions on which they primarily focus: Europe, North America, and southern Africa. At the same time, however, the papers show how sometimes deep contextual differences between states also ground differences in the way questions of citizenship are approached, leading to differences in outcome. In this respect, the symposium also offers useful insight into the challenges of comparative constitutional law. The symposium comprises papers by Linda Bosniak on the dichotomy between personhood and citizenship, primarily in relation to the United States; Enik ő Horváth and Ruth Rubio-Marín on the evolution of citizenship in Germany; Jonathan Klaaren on contested and evolving conceptions of citizenship in southern Africa; Anja Lansbergen and Jo Shaw on the impact of a multilevel Europe on citizenship in member states; Cristina M. Rodríguez on the extension of voting rights along a spectrum of common law countries ranging from the United States to Eire to New Zealand; and Peter J. Spiro on dual citizenship. The papers variously conceive of citizenship narrowly in terms of legal status; more broadly by reference to the incidents of citizenship; or more broadly still by reference to membership of a community, constructed through residence, social cohesion, or otherwise. However citizenship is conceived, there is always an " other, " whose status, entitlements, and relationship to the core community are necessarily the subject of this symposium as well. In addition, as the papers show, there is a symbiotic relationship between the incidents of citizenship, the relative ease of naturalization, and, in some cases, migration policy and practice. The papers also identify a range of impetuses to change. One is the creation of a new form of citizenship under the auspices of the European Union. Both the general aspiration for equality of treatment of the citizens of member states throughout the Union and the particular conferral on them of a right to vote in municipal elections in any member state in which they reside on the same