Multiple Citizenship as a Challenge to European Nation-states


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This book focuses on clarifying and comparing how the rules of acquisition, maintenance, and revocation of dual citizenship have been modified and justified in eight states associated with the European Union: Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Portugal, and the United Kingdom.




Multiple State Membership and Citizenship in the Era of Transnational Migration


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Once a rare phenomenon, multiple state membership and multinational citizenship has become almost commonplace with the rise in transnational mobility. This compilation analyses transnational participation focusing mainly on the interests of individual people and their transnational networks. The focus lies on the perceptions, attitudes, experiences and views on membership and participation of people with dual/multiple citizenship and individuals with multinational background who hold a single citizenship. Eight contributions present findings from the international research project Dual Citizenship, Governance and Education: A Challenge to the European Nation-State (DCE) conducted in 2002-2006 in Britain, France, Portugal, Germany, Finland, Greece, Estonia, and Israel.




An Emerging Institution?


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This book presents findings from an ambitious comparative project. The nine chapters describe results of a theoretically based survey of officials' personal approaches to multiple citizenships. In this study, members of parliaments, heads of government ministries, officials in local government and in NGOs disclose how they feel about multiple citizenships and how they deal with problems that arise. They also discuss their views on education for (multiple) citizenship and on the evolving relationship of national and regional citizenship. Despite the similarities in formal governance structures of the countries analysed in this research study (Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Portugal, Estonia, the UK), there are deep differences in their state histories, in the mode of their association with the European Union, and in their national cultures. These have a decisive impact on the types of problems officials are faced with and on their interpretations of citizenship and sovereignty in the twenty-first century. This volume provides a nuanced and comprehensive understanding of how officials view the dilemmas of citizenship.




Challenge to the Nation-State


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This volume presents the latest research by some of the world's leading figures in the fast growing area of immigration studies. Relating the study of immigration to wider processes of social change, the book focuses on two key areas in which nation-states are being challenged by this phenomenon: sovereignty and citizenship. Bringing together the separate clusters of scholarship which have evolved around both of these areas, Challenge to the Nation-State disentangles the many contrasting views on the impact of immigration on the authority and integrity of the state. Some scholars have stressed the stubborn resistance of states to relinquish territorial control, the continued relevance of national citizenship traditions, and the `balkanizing' risks of ethnically divided societies. Others have argued that migrations are fostering a post-national world. In their view, states' immigration policies are increasingly constrained by global markets and an international human rights regime, membership as citizenship is devalued by new forms of postnational membership for migrants, and national monocultures are giving way to multicultural diversity. Focusing on the issue of sovereignty in the first section, and citizenship in the second, this compelling new study seeks to clarify the central stakes and opposing positions in this important and complex debate.




Of States, Rights, and Social Closure


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Do nation-states act to facilitate or limit immigration and integration, how and why? How do nation-states themselves transform in understanding and interpreting rights respond to immigration? Does the European Union make a difference in terms of how immigrants are perceived or how they act as stakeholders in liberal democracies?




Democracy and the Nation State


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First Published in 2016. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.




Citizenship in a Global World


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A keen analysis of the social, political and economic determinants of Turkish politics with an exploration of the different dimensions of the republican model of Turkish citizenship, providing the reader with a comprehensive account of Turkish modernity and democracy. At the beginning of a new millennium, Turkey finds itself at a critical juncture in its democratic evolution. This momentous event has been precipitated by its desire to enter into the European Union and the recent financial crisis it has faced, both of which have fuelled the need for the creation of a strong, democratic Turkey. Consisting of a collection of innovative and influential essays by leading scholars, this book gives the reader an historical and sociological understanding of Turkey and adds a new dimension to the ongoing discussion surrounding global citizenship and global identity.







Dual citizenship in a global europe: portugal and the challenges of new migrations


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O objetivo da tese é investigar como a admissão da dupla cidadania pelalei de nacionalidade portuguesa, ao se sobrepor a uma cidadania européia, permitenovas configurações para a noção de cidadania, desagregando os limites daparticipação e do pertencimento nacionais. A convergência nas leis denacionalidade dos Estados-membros e a tolerância à dupla cidadania, características do processo de integração europeu, só podem ser compreendidas apartir do contexto social dentro do qual se processam suas interações. Desde adécada de 70, as migrações têm colocado uma série de questões sobre como osEstados e o processo de integração europeu podem e devem responder aosdesafios trazidos pela diversidade com a globalização. Após a consolidação doespaço Schengen, a institucionalização da União Européia tem gerado uma novalógica de exclusão, além daquela centrada no Estado-nação, que opõe acomunidade de cidadãos europeus àqueles que não são nacionais e, portanto, sãoimigrantes, principalmente os ilegais e sem qualificação. Mas, se ela reforça ereconstrói lógicas de exclusão tradicionais, fornece também, baseada em seucompromisso com os direitos humanos, um novo campo para a discussão acercada integração das comunidades imigrantes já existentes. O Estado português, nesse sentido, tem desenvolvido uma relação dialética entre a proximidadehistórica e cultural do mundo lusófono com as prioridades do processo deintegração europeu. Ao analisar as mudanças das leis de nacionalidade dePortugal e sua tolerância à dupla cidadania a partir de década de 80, pode-severificar como aqueles que obtêm a nacionalidade portuguesa especialmente osdescendentes de portugueses provenientes de ex-colônias - têm a oportunidade departicipar do processo excludente da cidadania européia, deslocando, ao mesmotempo, as fronteiras comunitárias para além dos limites territoriais da União.




At Home in Two Countries


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Read Peter's Op-ed on Trump's Immigration Ban in The New York Times The rise of dual citizenship could hardly have been imaginable to a time traveler from a hundred or even fifty years ago. Dual nationality was once considered an offense to nature, an abomination on the order of bigamy. It was the stuff of titanic battles between the United States and European sovereigns. As those conflicts dissipated, dual citizenship continued to be an oddity, a condition that, if not quite freakish, was nonetheless vaguely disreputable, a status one could hold but not advertise. Even today, some Americans mistakenly understand dual citizenship to somehow be “illegal”, when in fact it is completely tolerated. Only recently has the status largely shed the opprobrium to which it was once attached. At Home in Two Countries charts the history of dual citizenship from strong disfavor to general acceptance. The status has touched many; there are few Americans who do not have someone in their past or present who has held the status, if only unknowingly. The history reflects on the course of the state as an institution at the level of the individual. The state was once a jealous institution, justifiably demanding an exclusive relationship with its members. Today, the state lacks both the capacity and the incentive to suppress the status as citizenship becomes more like other forms of membership. Dual citizenship allows many to formalize sentimental attachments. For others, it’s a new way to game the international system. This book explains why dual citizenship was once so reviled, why it is a fact of life after globalization, and why it should be embraced today.