Citizenship 2.0 : dual nationality as a global asset / Yossi Harpaz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harpaz, Yossi, author.

Series:

Princeton studies in global and comparative sociology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dual nationality--Social aspects--Europe.

Dual nationality.

Dual nationality--Social aspects--Mexico.

Dual nationality--Social aspects--Israel.

Intergenerational relations--Social aspects--Europe.

Intergenerational relations.

Intergenerational relations--Social aspects--Mexico.

Intergenerational relations--Social aspects--Israel.

Social aspects.

Europe.

Israel.

Mexico.

Physical Description:

vii, 203 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Citizenship two point zero

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey ; Woodstock, Oxfordshire : Princeton University Press, [2019]

Summary:

"The institution of citizenship has undergone significant change in the last two decades. Since the 1990s, dozens of countries have changed their laws to permit dual citizenship, moving away from the previous model that demanded exclusive allegiance. As a consequence, tens of millions of people around the world now hold citizenship in two (and sometimes three or four) countries. These changes have inevitably had an affect on the lived experience and personal meaning of citizenship, but the existing literature on dual citizenship has mostly focused on immigrants in Western Europe and North America and has inquired about identity and sentimental aspects of citizenship. Yossi Harpaz looks beyond the West in this book, arguing that the rise of dual citizenship has created new opportunities for non-Western elites to convert local advantages into a global resource. Millions draw on ancestral or ethnic ties to Western/EU countries or create such ties strategically in order to obtain a second nationality that will provide them with additional opportunities, an insurance policy, a high-prestige passport and even social status. He draws on qualitative and quantitative material from three cases that represent three pathways to compensatory citizenship: Hungarian-speaking Serbians who draw on their ethnicity to acquire a second citizenship from Hungary; upper-class Mexicans who engage in "birth tourism" in order to secure American citizenship for their children; and Israelis who reacquire the citizenship of European countries from which their parents and grandparents had immigrated half a century earlier"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1. Dual Citizenship as a Strategy of Global Upward Mobility; 2. Serbia: Becoming Hungarian, Returning to Europe; 3. Mexico: Strategic Birth as Elite Investment; 4. Israel: European Passports as Insurance and Restitution; Conclusion: The Rise of the Sovereign Individual; Acknowledgments; Methodological Appendix; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

069119405X

9780691194059

9780691194066

0691194068

OCLC:

1089498178