The Ethics of Multiple Citizenship

222 Pages·2018·3.743 MB·English

by  Ana Tanasoca

The Ethics of Multiple Citizenship
Citizenship is no longer an exclusive relationship. Many people today
are citizens of multiple countries, whether by birth, naturalization, or
even through monetary means, with schemes fast-tracking citizenship
applicationsfromforeignersmakinglargeinvestmentsinthestate.Moral
problemssurroundeachofthosewaysofacquiringasecondcitizenship,
while retaining one’s original citizenship. Multiple citizenship can also
havemorallyproblematicconsequencesforthecoherenceofcollective
decisions, for the constitution of the demos, and for global inequality.
Thephenomenonofmultiple citizenshipanditsramificationsremains
understudied, despite its magnitude and political importance. In this
innovative book, Ana Tanasoca explores these issues and shows how
theycouldbeavoidedbyunbundlingtherightsthatcurrentlycomewith
citizenshipandallocatingthemseparately.Itwillappealtoscholarsand
students of normative political theory, citizenship, global justice, and
migrationinpoliticalscience,law,andsociology.
ana tanasoca is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for
DeliberativeDemocracyandGlobalGovernance,UniversityofCanberra.
Broadly interested in analytic normative political theory, her principal
current research project explores the moral and epistemic dimensions
of deliberation.Her work has been published inthe European Journal of
Sociology,theAustralasianJournalofPhilosophy,andMoralPhilosophyand
Politics.
Contemporary Political Theory
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Asthetwenty-firstcenturybegins,majornewpoliticalchallengeshavearisenat
the same time as some of the most enduring dilemmas of political association
remain unresolved. The collapse of communism and the end of the Cold War
reflect a victory for democratic and liberal values, yet in many of the Western
countries that nurtured those values there are severe problems of urban decay,
classandracialconflict,andfailingpoliticallegitimacy.Enduringglobalinjustice
and inequality seem compounded by environmental problems, disease, the
oppressionofwomenandracial,ethnic,andreligiousminoritiesandtherelent-
less growth of the world’s population. In such circumstances, the need for
creativethinkingaboutthefundamentalsofhumanpoliticalassociationismani-
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The Ethics of Multiple
Citizenship
Ana Tanasoca
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To my parents, Doina and Sandu Tanasoca