Towards a Post-Citizenship Society? A Report From the Front

Citizenship Studies, 2004

University of Toronto Law Journal, 2009

Citizenship is back in vogue. Politicians speak about it; public-policy makers debate how best to make citizenship meaningful in an age of globalized security threats and migration pressures. Legislatures worldwide have also taken an interest, introducing new citizenship tests and more restrictive admission criteria. Scholars, too, have turned their gaze to citizenship once again, after many years of neglect. 1 This renewed interest in citizenship is avant-gardist and futuristic in orientation: intellectuals and dreamers alike imagine how citizenship might evolve in the twenty-first century and beyond. The urgency of such a task is typically explained as follows: with the rise of economic globalization, on the one hand, and the fragmentation of cultural identity within established societies, on the other, the national model of citizenship no longer fits the bill. The world is changing; so should citizenship. Indeed, some are claiming that citizenship is already undergoing major transformations-and that this is a good thing, too. What remains under fierce debate is what is in store for this glorious yet unfinished institution. Are we witnessing the semblances of global or cosmopolitan citizenship? 2 The rise of more commodified and

2014

Article history: Received 28 February 2014 Received in revised form 19 April 2014 Accepted 23 April 2014 Available online 25 May 2014

Comparative Law Review, 2011

The mass migration phenomenon calls into question the meaning of citizenship status in contemporary constitutional democracies as it represents a quest for a kind of global solidarity. This article explores the transformation of the concept of status civitatis from a European comparative perspective. The emerging role of citizenship in today political communities will be examined through the legislations concerning the recognition and protection of social rights of non citizens since: whilst on the one hand they are tied to citizenship through a nexus of principle, on the other hand they entail individual legal rights recognised under case law as having universal status. Relevant provisions of Italian, Spanish, French, Belgian and Dutch laws will be analysed with a view of sketching a map of problems and (possible) solutions. The comparison among European legal systems is, at the end, put to the test of theories that suggest moving beyond the idea of citizenship as a solution to the human rights/universal rights dialectic.

2007

This article reviews the central problematique of citizenship, arguing that the challenges imposed by neoliberal globalisation involve the loss of political, social and civil rights. By negating the mediations performed by citizenship between the people and the state, post-democracy renders citizenship meaningless. The article traces two main responses to this, a reactionary and a progressive one, none of which can address the problems of citizenship. The grains of a new response are found in three developments: a new ontology of the citizen, brought into being through digital acts; the existence of dual power, creating new forms of governance and social reproduction from below; and between these, the development of new procedures that directly engage with state power. Taken together, these considerations indicate a new possibility for the radicalisation of citizenship rather than a return to the former state of affairs.

Princeton University Press, 2019

Citizenship and globalisation research papers

The paper begins with an examination of three ideal types citizenship which are not necessarily mutual exclusive. The first type is national citizenship, typically associated with ethno-nationalism. The second form is social citizenship or ‘welfare citizenship’ refers to the creation of social rights and is closely connected to civil-society institutions rather than to the state or market. The third form of citizenship identifies the citizen with participation in the work force emphasizing self-reliance and autonomy. In this discussion, I argue that with economic globalization and the development of neo-liberal strategies the various forms of citizenship have converged towards a new model of passive citizenship in which the state is or has withdrawn from commitment to full employment and the provision of social security, especially universal provision of welfare services, and civil-society institutions have been eroded. The result is the emergence of the apolitical,isolated citizen ...

Revus, 2009

"Citizenship is the right to have rights" was famously claimed by Hannah Arendt. he case of the Slovenian erased sheds new light on this assumption that was supposedly put to rest ater World War II. We lack a comprehensive paradigm for grasping what citizenship means today in, and for, our societies. My thesis is that there are currently three ways to understand the notion. hese diferent views tend to merge and overlap in today's debate, furthering misunderstandings. I will account for the diferent conceptions of citizenship by looking at the opposite of citizenry. he political model holds the subject (sujet) in opposition to the citizen (citoyen), entailing problems related to the democratic quality of institutions. Law and jurisprudence look at citizenship by trying to limit the numerous hard cases arising in a world of migration where the opposite of the citizen is the alien and the stateless. While in social science citizenship is the opposite of exclusion and represents social membership, my aim is therefore to distinguish and clear out these three diferent semantic areas. his essay is presented in four sections: First, I briely recall the case of the erased. he second section focuses on discourse analysis so as to enucleate the three diferent meanings of citizenship that we ind in the current debate according to the prevailing disciplinary ields: political, legal and social sciences. hirdly, attention will be directed to the composition of the diferent semantic areas that are connected to the term citizenship. I suggest that we are now dealing with a threefold notion. Finally, I will point to an array of questions that citizenship raises in today's complex society and try to show how this tri-partition of the meaning of "citizenship" can be a useful device for decision makers so as to design as consistent policies as possible.