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Beyond National Citizenship: Sociological Aspects and Governance Issues.
Abstract Submissions Closed
RC26 Sociotechnics, Sociological Practice (host committee)
Language: English
Session Type: Oral
In contemporary democracies, citizenship laws are showing a stunning paradox: they reflect the modern project of open societies, where equal rights for all would take the place of Ancien Régime ascriptive privileges.
Though, in the most recent years, the massive migration flows that have taken place worldwide, have redesigned the demographics of many states, where large communities lie of inhabitants, who are not citizens and often are even illegal residents.
The main consequence of this scenario is that the political decisions of democratically elected governments affect the life of that part of the population, who holds no right to political representation nor legal protection, let alone social and economic rights.
This is why, while traditional models of nation-based citizenship seem more and more inadequate (as Turner and Sassen assessed) strong is the need for more open citizenship models (such as European citizenship).
This panel welcomes papers, which focus on the following subjects:
- Case studies on lacking/denied citizenship
- Models of supranational/global citizenship that fit with the contemporary globalized context
- Policy-making strategies to cope with and resolve the dysfunctional effects of lacking citizenship conditions.