Citizenship Policies in the New Europe: Expanded and Updated Edition

edited by Rainer Bauböck, Bernhard Perchinig and Wiebke Sievers

Amsterdam University Press, 2009
eISBN: 978-90-485-0225-7 | Paper: 978-90-8964-108-3
Library of Congress Classification KJC5114.C583 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 301

ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC

ABOUT THIS BOOK

The two most recent expansions to the EU, in May 2004 and January 2007, have had a significant impact on contemporary conceptions of statehood, nation-building, and citizenship within the Union. This volume outlines the citizenship laws in each of the twelve new countries as well as in the accession states of Croatia and Turkey.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Rainer Bauböck is professor of social and political theory at the European University Institute in Florence. Bernhard Perchinig is senior researcher at the Institute for European Integration Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Wiebke Sievers is researcher at the Commission for Migration and Integration Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

REVIEWS

“By extending the common framework of the NATAC study to the ‘new Europe,’ this volume provides the first systematic comparison of these important cases, thus giving scholars and policymakers a more complete and accurate picture of citizenship policies throughout the European Union.”

— Marc Morjé Howard, Georgetown University

“A unique analysis of citizenship policies in the countries of the most recent wave of EU enlargement, plus Turkey. The contributors provide deep insights into the complex histories of nationality in these countries and the challenges they now face in managing national and ethnic identity issues.”

— Martin Rhodes, University of Denver

“I know of no other comparable collection that combines this breadth of coverage with the characteristic depth of analysis.”

— Michael Collyer, Sussex University

“This work is a worthy completion of the most impressive research ever done on European citizenship laws. For a change, European moneys well spent.”

— Christian Joppke, American University of Paris

TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of figures and tables

Preface

Andre Liebich

Introduction: Altneuländer or the vicissitudes of citizenship in the new EU states

1 New states and old concerns, or why there is not much plural citizenship in the Altneuländer

2 Old categories and new principles, or how ethnicity has trumped other grounds for citizenship

3 Old wrongs and new rights, or how to use citizenship to correct history

4 Conclusion: The historical past, the ethnic present and the immigrant future

Annex: Constitutional preambles (extracts)

Part I Restored States

Priit Järve

1 Estonian citizenship: Between ethnic preferences and democratic obligations

Kristīne Krūma

2 Checks and balances in Latvian national policies: National agendas and international frameworks

Kristīne Krūma

3 Lithuanian nationality: Trump card to independence and its current challenges

Part II States with Histories of Shifting Borders

Agata Górny and Dorota Pudzianowska

4 Same letter, new spirit: Nationality regulations and their implementation in Poland

Mária M. Kovács and Judit Tóth

5 Kin-state responsibility and ethnic citizenship: The Hungarian case

Constantin Iordachi

6 Politics of citizenship in post-communist Romania: Legal traditions, restitution of nationality and multiple memberships

Daniel Smilov and Elena Jileva

7 The politics of Bulgarian citizenship: National identity, democracy and other uses

Part III Post-Partition States

Andrea Baršová

8 Czech citizenship legislation between past and future

Dagmar Kusá

9 The Slovak question and the Slovak answer: Citizenship during the quest for national self-determination and after

Felicita Medved

10 From civic to ethnic community? The evolution of Slovenian citizenship

Francesco Ragazzi and Igor Štiks

11 Croatian citizenship: From ethnic engineering to inclusiveness

Part IV Mediterranean Post-Imperial States

Eugene Buttigieg

12 Malta’s citizenship law: Evolution and current regime

Nicos Trimikliniotis

13 Nationality and citizenship in Cyprus since 1945: Communal citizenship, gendered nationality and the adventures of a post-colonial subject in a divided country

Zeynep Kadirbeyoglu

14 Changing conceptions of citizenship in Turkey

Wiebke Sievers

‘A call to kinship’? Citizenship and migration in the new Member States and the accession countries of the EU

List of contributors

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