People's understandings of what it means to be a citizen go to the heart of the various meanings of personal and national identity, political and electoral part

This paper analyzes the impact of citizenship laws on economic development. We first document the evolution of citizenship laws around the world, highlighting t

Citizenship as a status assumes that all those encompassed by the term 'citizen' are included, albeit within the boundaries of the nation-state. Yet citizenship

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Guide to the theories and debates that surround the key political concepts of state, citizenship and democracy today.