Citizenship in Segmented Societies

Citizenship in Segmented Societies
Author: Francis Cheneval
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2018-03-30
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1788112695

European Union citizenship is increasingly relevant in the context of both the refugee crisis and Brexit, yet the issue of citizenship is neither new nor unique to the EU. Using historical, political and sociological perspectives, the authors explore varied experiences of combining multiple identities into a single sense of citizenship. Cases are taken from Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Spain, Switzerland and Turkey. These examples of communities being successfully incorporated into one entity are exceptionally useful for addressing the challenges facing the EU today.

Citizenship in Diverse Societies

Citizenship in Diverse Societies
Author: Will Kymlicka
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 457
Release: 2000-03-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 019152266X

Is it possible, in a modern, pluralistic society, to promote common bonds of citizenship while at the same time accommodating and showing respect for ethnocultural diversity? 'Citizenship' and 'diversity' have been two of the major topics of debate in both democratic politics and political theory over the past decade. Much has been written about the importance of citizenship, civic identities, and civic virtues for the functioning of liberal democracies, and the need to accommodate the ethnocultural, linguistic, and religious pluralism that is a fact of life in most modern states. By and large, however, these two topics have been largely discussed in mutual isolation. Much of the writing on the issues of both citizenship and diversity remains rather abstract and general and disconnected from the specific issues of public policy and institutional design. Citizenship in Diverse Societies examines the specific points of conflict and convergence between concerns for citizenship and diversity in democratic societies and reassesses and refines existing theories of 'diverse citizenship' by examining these theories in the light of actual practices and policies of pluralistic democracies.

Citizenship and Rights in Multicultural Societies

Citizenship and Rights in Multicultural Societies
Author: Dunne Michael Dunne
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2019-07-29
Genre: POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN: 1474467911

This topical book examines the debates around contemporary conflicts between liberal democracies and increasingly vociferous special interest groups within society. It analyses the way a new sense of difference and the growth of multi-culturalism are straining modern notions of citizenship and rights, looking in particular at how ethnic conflicts in Eastern Europe have escalated to international tragedies, while in the US and Canada, race, ethnicity and radical feminism are at the heart of a social conflict which challenges national identity and the unity of the state.

Encyclopedia of Citizenship Studies

Encyclopedia of Citizenship Studies
Author: Marisol García Cabeza
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 501
Release: 2024-04-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1800880464

This Encyclopedia presents a comprehensive collection of entries addressing the normative claims and definitions of the critical concepts, principles, and approaches that make up the field of citizenship studies.

Citizenship and Social Rights

Citizenship and Social Rights
Author: Fred Twine
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1994-09-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781446224519

This broad-ranging text offers an analysis of the idea of citizenship and its relevance to social problems and social policies in advanced industrial societies. Twine demonstrates that two concepts are essential to an understanding of the issue of citizenship: the socially embedded nature of human agents, and their interdependence both with each other and with the natural and social worlds they inhabit. Twine emphasizes the social nature of individual needs and individual rights. He shows that interdependence is not limited to the mutual linkages within advanced industrial societies, but extends both to the relations between advanced and developing nations and to the environmental contexts of human existence.

The Condition of Citizenship

The Condition of Citizenship
Author: Bart Van Steenbergen
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 194
Release: 1994-03-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1446265781

This innovative volume explores ways in which the idea of citizenship can be seen as a unifying concept in understanding contemporary social change and social problems. The book outlines traditional linkages between citizenship and public participation, national identity and social welfare, and shows the relevance of citizenship for a range of rising issues extending from global change through gender to the environment. The areas investigated include: the challenge of internationalization to the nation state and to national identities; the contested nature of citizenship in relation to poverty, work and welfare; the implications of gender inequality; and the potential for new conceptions of citizenship in response to cultural and political change.

Recasting the Social in Citizenship

Recasting the Social in Citizenship
Author: Engin F. Isin
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 564
Release: 2008-11-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1442692405

Previous notions of what constitutes "citizenship" within a country have been steadily challenged by the movement towards a globalized world. Examining the everyday habits of citizens and non-citizens, the contributors to Recasting the Social in Citizenship show how citizenship has increasingly been determined by social behaviours rather than by civil or political affiliations. Broadening the debate by interpreting the social not only as rights and privileges, but also as everyday struggles, this volume offers studies that range from environmental and security issues to transnational migration and military transformations. It further discusses debates over multiculturalism and integration and takes a fresh look at how social activities such as eating, commuting, smoking, as well as sexual habits of citizens and non-citizens have become increasingly governed by the state. Tracing developments in politics and social actions that have bound together citizens and non-citizens, Engin F. Isin and the volume's contributors explore the social sites that have become objects of government, and considers how these subjects are sites of contestation, resistance, differentiation and identification. In doing so, they provide significant insights into the changing states of citizenship and social governance, making Recasting the Social in Citizenship an engaging collection that will be of interest to sociologists, political scientists, and anyone with a concern about immigration and citizenship.

Handbook of Political Citizenship and Social Movements

Handbook of Political Citizenship and Social Movements
Author: Hein-Anton van der Heijden
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 710
Release: 2014-10-31
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1781954704

øThis Handbook uniquely collates the results of several decades of academic research in these two important fields. The expert contributions successively address the different forms of political citizenship and current approaches and recent development

Citizenship, Civil Society and Development

Citizenship, Civil Society and Development
Author: Tiina Kontinen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2016-04-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317574338

The book investigates the intersection of citizenship, civil society, and development in today’s global world. The multi-disciplinary collection considers the notion of citizenship in connection with the neoliberal development agendas, participation, security discourses and legal environments. The contributions analyse the development-citizenship nexus grounded in empirical work in African, Latin American, European and global contexts. The book opens exciting avenues to reflect on the notion of citizenship and explores the following pertinent questions: Does citizenship matter for development research? Do international development policy and practice promote certain normative registers for how people should make sense of their social relations and, in particular, how they relate to public authorities? What are their responses? Contributors from various academic backgrounds, such as anthropology, law, and political science, affirm the importance of citizenship for the study of contemporary development processes. Chapters provide empirical analysis of the processes of water privatization in Ghana, the promulgation of new ‘NGO Law’ in Ethiopia, environmental politics in former Yugoslavia, and the global interconnections between the Arab Spring and the Occupy Wall Street movement. The book is relevant for students and scholars of political science and development studies as well as development practitioners globally. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Civil Society.

Crafting Citizenship

Crafting Citizenship
Author: M. Hurenkamp
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2012-08-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137033614

According to politics and the media, immigration and individualization drive citizens apart but in neighbourhoods social life is often thriving, depending on the talents of particular citizens or of local institutions. This book examines new forms of active citizenship and the actual conditions that hinder social cohesion.