In most accounts of democracy, rights and national citizenship are closely linked. Yet, actual democracies and semi-democratic countries include many people who are not full citizens in legal and political terms. THere is no sign of this population diminishing, and Read More …
In this special issue of the European Law Journal, prominent scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds discuss the transformations of European Union citizenship in theory and in practice. Publication details and link to source: Dora Kostakopoulou, Elspeth Guild and Read More …
The decision to extend citizenship to nonresidents grows out of specific identity projects undertaken, most often, by right-wing governments and results in fluid and variable conditions of membership. Publication details and link to source: Myra A. Waterbury, ‘Making Citizens Beyond Read More …
Citizenship studies is at a crucial moment of globalizing as a field. What used to be mainly a European, North American, and Australian field has now expanded to major contributions featuring scholarship from Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle Read More …
The determinants and consequences of the naturalization of immigrants is a hot topic in the political debate in Europe. This article compares the effect of naturalization on the income attainment of immigrants in two Scandinavian countries, Denmark and Sweden, using Read More …
This book explores two principles governing migrant citizenship in Germany: the principle of progressive inclusion and the principle of static attribution. It develops both the structural and the legal dimensions of the two principles and proposes a model for the Read More …
In a number of countries immigrants are required to pass formal tests before they can become citizens, the most common of which assess language proficiency and knowledge of society. Responses to the implementation of these ‘citizenship tests’ have been mixed: Read More …
Why do some countries tolerate dual citizenship while others do not? The answer concerns the interaction between regime type variation and international migration. Democracies with a relatively large migrant stock are more likely to tolerate dual citizenship than democracies with Read More …
The right to vote has always been the central privilege of citizenship. Its extension to resident migrants holds a promise of democratizing citizenship by bringing it closer to principles with deep roots in liberal and republican traditions, and further away Read More …
In the last decade, researchers have developed many innovative ideas for the construction of indices measuring immigration policies. Methodological considerations have, however, been largely absent from the discussion. To close this gap, this paper investigates the characteristics of existing indices Read More …
