Multilevel Citizenship / / ed. by Willem Maas.

Citizenship has come to mean legal and political equality within a sovereign nation-state; in international law, only states may determine who is and who is not a citizen. But such unitary status is the historical exception: before sovereign nation-states became the prevailing form of political orga...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Varieties of Multilevel Citizenship
  • PART I. Migrants and Migrations
  • Chapter 2. Denizen Enfranchisement and Flexible Citizenship: National Passports or Local Ballots?
  • Chapter 3. Attrition through Enforcement in the ''Promiseland'': Overlapping Memberships and the Duties of Governments in Mexican America
  • Chapter 4. Multilevel Citizenship in a Federal State: The Case of Noncitizens' Rights in the United States
  • PART II. Empires and Indigeneity
  • Chapter 5. When Did Egyptians Stop Being Ottomans? An Imperial Citizenship Case Study
  • Chapter 6. The Su Bao Case and the Layers of Everyday Citizenship in China, 1894-1904
  • Chapter 7. The International Indigenous Rights Discourse and Its Demands for Multilevel Citizenship
  • PART III. Local, Multinational, and Postnational
  • Chapter 8. Local Citizenship Politics in Switzerland: Between National Justice and Municipal Particularities
  • Chapter 9. Multilevel Citizenship and the Contested Statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Chapter 10. Citizens of a New Agora: Postnational Citizenship and International Economic Institutions
  • Chapter 11. Sites of Citizenship, Politics of Scales
  • Contributors
  • Notes
  • Index