Patrolling the boundaries of belonging? Courts, law and citizenship

Date

2019

Authors

Conant, Lisa
Hofmann, Andreas
Soennecken, Dagmar
Vanhala, Lisa

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Volume Title

Publisher

Elgar

Abstract

This chapter explores how courts and law have contributed to the evolution of citizenship. Theoretically, it draws on Christian Joppkeā€™s 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