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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785083503321

Autore

Kostakopoulou Theodora

Titolo

The future governance of citizenship / / Dora Kostakopoulou [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2008

ISBN

1-107-18329-4

1-281-38353-8

9786611383534

0-511-39774-7

0-511-39943-X

0-511-39697-X

0-511-39624-4

0-511-61986-3

0-511-39850-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 230 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Law in context

Disciplina

323.6

Soggetti

World citizenship

Citizenship - Philosophy

Domicile

Globalization

Domicile as point of contact (Conflict of laws)

Citizenship as point of contact (Conflict of laws)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The cartography of citizenship -- The nationality model of citizenship and its critics -- Shades of togetherness, patriotism and naturalisation -- The institutional design of anational citizenship -- Anational citizenship in the international public realm -- The variable geometry of citizenship -- Pathways to inclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

In much of the citizenship literature it is often considered, if not simply assumed, that citizenship is integral to the character of a self-determining community and that this process, by definition, involves the exclusion of resident 'foreigners'. Dora Kostakopoulou calls this



assumption into question, arguing that 'aliens' are by definition outside the bounds of the community by virtue of a circular reasoning which takes for granted the existence of bounded national communities, and that this process of collective self-definition is deeply political and historically dated. Although national citizenship has enjoyed a privileged position in both theory and practice, its remarkable elasticity has reached its limit, thereby making it more important to find an alternative model. Kostakopoulou develops a new institutional framework for anational citizenship, which can be grafted onto the existing state system, defends it against objections and proposes institutional reform based on an innovative approach to citizenship.