Tuesday seminar: Willem Maas
Willem Maas from York University will present the paper 'Varieties of Multilevel Citizenship'.
(Photo: York University)
From the introduction
Citizenship in contemporary societies has come to be defined as a relatively homogeneous legal and political status within the context of a state.1 While undeniably important, the focus on (nation-)state citizenship obscures important developments at both sub- and suprastate levels. For example, the rise of citizenship of the European Union (discussed further in the next section) has raised expectations that other regional integration efforts may also result in meaningful supranational rights.
At the same time many states, particularly federal or multinational ones, face demands for special local rights. The comparative history of citizenship and its political evolution provides rich examples of multilevel citizenship in theory and practice, though such examples are today often forgotten and obscured by the dominant narrative of a single and homogeneous, territorial state-based citizenship.
(This paper is a work in progress and thus has limited distribution, please contact us if you want access. Please do not cite without permission from the author.)
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