Citizenship Policies in the New Europe
Expanded and Updated Edition
Distributed for Amsterdam University Press
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.
“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.”
“I know of no other comparable collection that combines this breadth of coverage with the characteristic depth of analysis.”
“This work is a worthy completion of the most impressive research ever done on European citizenship laws. For a change, European moneys well spent.”
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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
Political Science: Comparative Politics
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