Post National Citizenship
Post National Citizenship
• National Citizenship
• is a territorially bounded population with a specific set of rights and duties,
excluding others on the ground of nationality.
• Codification of ‘Human Rights’
• Shift in the conceptualization of rights
• Individual rights
• Principle of Human Rights
• Multi-level Polities
• Creates new opportunities for mobilizing and advancing demands within and
beyond national boundaries
• Implications on rights and identity
• Organization and practice of citizenship
• Nation
• Is still the source of a pronounced distinctiveness
Rights and Identity
• Identities
• occupy a vital place in individual and collective actors’ narratives and
strategies
Claims-making and Mobilization: The Practice of Citizenship
1st feature
• Immigrant groups in Europe
• advance claims for group-specific provisions
• emphasize their group identities
• claims are not simply grounded in the particularities of religious or ethnic
narratives
• they appeal to the universalistic principles and dominant discourses of equality,
emancipation and individual rights
2nd feature
• participation extends beyond the confines of a unitary national community
• covers multiple localities and transnationally connects public spheres
• Immigrant groups
• we find political parties, mosque organizations and community associations
that operate at local levels but also assume transnational forms by bridging
diverse public spaces
Public spheres within which immigrants act, mobilize, and advance claims
have broadened
Claims-making and Mobilization: The Practice of Citizenship
2nd feature
• Immigrant groups
• they appeal to the universalistic principles of human rights and connect to a
diverse set of public spheres
• their mobilization is not simply a reinvention of cultural particularism
• Post-national Citizenship
• It signifies a set of practices through which individuals and groups activate
their membership within and without the nation-state
The Value of ‘Individuality’ as the Underlying Principle of
Citizenship
• ‘Selective migration’ and ‘integration’ constitute the core facets of the new
orientation.
• The current citizenship and integration tests do not reveal anything distinctive
about the particularities of the nation or a distinct philosophy of integration
• History Questions
• Questions to appraise values
• Rights of the individual
• Rights of the under privileged sections of society
• Education
• Math
• Language
• Science
The Value of ‘Individuality’ as the Underlying Principle of
Citizenship
• Individuality
• elicits the recognition of universal qualities
• enhancement of universal freedoms and rights
• Analytical Concept
• Institutions of Rights and Identity
• locate citizenship and its practice in increasingly transnational discourses and
multiple public spheres
• ‘Transnational Communities’
• International Transportation
• Communication Technologies
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itself a normative prescription and
should not be superfluously
conflated with theoretical positions
such as cosmopolitanism that
profess a moral commitment to the
transformative capabilities of
universal values
Coda: Delimiting the Contours of
Post-national Citizenship
• Rights
• Membership
• Participation