Patrolling the boundaries of belonging? Courts, law and citizenship
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Date
2019
Authors
Conant, Lisa
Hofmann, Andreas
Soennecken, Dagmar
Vanhala, Lisa
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Publisher
Elgar
Abstract
This chapter explores how courts and law have contributed to the evolution of citizenship. Theoretically, it draws on Christian Joppkeās distinctions between citizenship as status, rights, and identity as a means to analyse different facets of belonging within political communities. Substantively, it emphasizes the United States (US) and European Union (EU) as historical projects where law and courts were particularly important in constructing national and supranational citizenship, respectively. It also examines tensions evident in postnational memberships, such as the de facto partial citizenship of unauthorized immigrants and exclusion of many refugees from any citizenship.
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Keywords
law, courts, rights, migrants, refugees, citizenship, United States, European Union
Citation
Conant, L., Hofmann, A., Soennecken, D., & Vanhala, L. (2019). "Patrolling the boundaries of belonging? Courts, law and citizenship". In Research Handbook on Law and Courts. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788113205.00034