Citizenship Policies in the New Europe

R. Bauböck, B. Perchinig, W. Sievers

Amsterdam University Press, 2009 - Political Science - 460 pages

"Citizenship Policies in the New Europe describes the citizenship laws in each of the twelve new countries as well as in the accession states Croatia and Turkey and analyses their historical background. Citizenship Policies in the New Europe complements two volumes on Acquisition and Loss of Nationality in the fifteen old Member States published in the same series in 2006." --Book Jacket.

Contents

• Preface: 15
• Altneuländer or the vicissitudes of citizenship in the new EU states: 21
• Part I Restored states: 43
• Between ethnic preferences and democratic obligations: 45
• National agendas and international frameworks: 67
• Trump card to independence and its current challenges: 97
• Part II States with histories of shifting borders: 121
• Nationality regulations and their implementation in Poland: 123
• The Hungarian case: 151
• Legal traditions restitution of nationality and multiple memberships: 177
• National identity democracy and other uses: 211
• Part III Postpartition states: 247
• 8 Czech citizenship legislation between past and future: 249
• Citizenship during the quest for national selfdetermination and after: 275
• 10 From civic to ethnic community? The evolution of Slovenian citizenship: 305
• From ethnic engineering to inclusiveness: 339
• Part IV Mediterranean postimperial states: 365
• Evolution and current regime: 367
• Communal citizenship gendered nationality and the adventures of a postcolonial subject in a divided country: 389
• 14 Changing conceptions of citizenship in Turkey: 419
• A call to kinship? Citizenship and migration in the new Member States and the accession countries of the EU: 439
• List of contributors: 459

About the author

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Citizenship Policies in the New Europe; Amsterdam University Press - IMISCOE Research Series; IMISCOE research
• Editors: R. Bauböck, B. Perchinig, W. Sievers
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, 2009
• ISBN: 9089641084, 9789089641083
• Length: 460 pages
• Subjects: Political Science / Civics & Citizenship; Political Science / Public Policy / General; Political Science / World / General