Citizenship policies in the New Europe / edited by Rainer Bauböck, Bernhard Perchinig, Wiebke Sievers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bauböck, Rainer.

Perchinig, Bernhard, 1958-

Series:

IMISCOE research.

IMISCOE research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Citizenship--European Union countries.

Citizenship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (465 p.)

Edition:

Expanded and updated ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The two most recent EU enlargements in May 2004 and in January 2007 have greatly increased the diversity of historic experiences and contemporary conceptions of statehood, nation-building and citizenship within the Union. How did newly formed states determine who would become their citizens? How do countries relate to their large emigrant communities, to ethnic kin minorities in neighbouring countries and to minorities in their own territory? And to which extent have their citizenship policies been affected by new immigration and integration into the European Union? Citizenship Policies in the

Contents:

Contents; List of figures and tables; Preface; Introduction: Altneuländer or the vicissitudes of citizenship in the new EU states; Part I Restored states; 1. Estonian citizenship: Between ethnic preferences and democratic obligations; 2. Checks and balances in Latvian nationality policies: National agendas and international frameworks; 3. Lithuanian nationality: Trump card to independence and its current challenges; Part II States with histories of shifting borders; 4. Same letter, new spirit: Nationality regulations and their implementation in Poland

5. Kin-state responsibility and ethnic citizenship: The Hungarian case6. Politics of citizenship in post-communist Romania: Legal traditions, restitution of nationality and multiple memberships; 7. The politics of Bulgarian citizenship: National identity, democracy and other uses; Part III Post-partition states; 8. Czech citizenship legislation between past and future; 9. The Slovak question and the Slovak answer: Citizenship during the quest for national selfdetermination and after; 10. From civic to ethnic community? The evolution of Slovenian citizenship

11. Croatian citizenship: From ethnic engineering to inclusivenessPart IV Mediterranean post-imperial states; 12. Malta's citizenship law: Evolution and current regime; 13. Nationality and citizenship in Cyprus since 1945: Communal citizenship, gendered nationality and the adventures of a post-colonial subject in a divided country; 14. Changing conceptions of citizenship in Turkey; 'A call to kinship'? Citizenship and migration in the new Member States and the accession countries of the EU; List of contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

1-003-69262-1

1-04-079645-1

1-282-40191-2

9786612401916

90-485-0225-X

9781003692621

OCLC:

475667220

Publisher Number:

10.5117/9789089641083