The future governance of citizenship

240 Pages·2008·0.97 MB·English

by  Dora Kostakopoulou

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The Future Governance of Citizenship
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’.DoraKostakopouloucallsthisassumptionintoquestion,
arguingthat‘aliens’arebydefinitionoutsidetheboundsofthecommunityby
virtueofacircularreasoningwhichtakesforgrantedtheexistenceofbounded
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
alternativemodel.Kostakopouloudevelopsanewinstitutionalframeworkfor
anational citizenship, which can be grafted onto the existing state system,
defends it against objections and proposes institutional reform based on an
innovativeapproachtocitizenship.
DoraKostakopoulouisJeanMonnetProfessorinEuropeanLawandIntegration
attheSchoolofLaw,UniversityofManchester.

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The Future Governance
of Citizenship
DORA KOSTAKOPOULOU
UniversityofManchester
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Contents
Acknowledgements pageviii
Introduction 1
1 Thecartographyofcitizenship 12
2 ThenationalitymodelofcitizenshipanditsCritics 45
3 Shadesoftogetherness,patriotismandnaturalisation 66
4 Theinstitutionaldesignofanationalcitizenship 100
5 Anationalcitizenshipintheinternationalpublicrealm 127
6 Thevariablegeometryofcitizenship 143
7 Pathwaystoinclusion 172
Conclusion 196
Bibliography 202
Index 220
Acknowledgements
Thisbookhashadalongperiodofgestationandwouldnothavebeenbrought
tofruitionwithoutthesupportoftheBritishAcademy,theThanksOfferingto
BritainFundandtheArtsandHumanitiesResearchCouncil.Iamverygrateful
for their support. I would also like tothank Sir MartinHarris (former Vice-
Chancellor of Manchester University), Chris Orme, Jared Ruff and Andrew
Sanders(former Head of theLaw School) for their encouragement and sup-
port. Manchester University has provided an intellectually stimulating and
relaxedenvironmentwithinwhichmanyofmyideaswereshaped.Ithankmy
colleaguesandstudentsforthis.Inparticular,specialthanksareduetoCarolyn
Abbot, David Booton, Francesco Giglio, Andrew Griffiths, Paul Kearns,
William Lucy, John Murphy, Anthony Ogus and to my former colleague,
JoShaw.ThanksalsotoFinolaO’SullivanatCambridgeUniversityPressfor
heradviceandencouragement.Finally,Iamextremelygratefultomyfamily
fortheirimmensepatienceandunfailingsupport.Everton,Alexander,Erini-
BeatriceandEuclidhaveawayofcontinuallyprovidinginspiration.Thebook
isdedicatedtothem.