Citizenship

Defining the nation: constructing citizenship in the new Croatia

Viktor Koska

The Croatian citizenship legislation reveals the ongoing process of Croatian invention of, in the words of Rogers Brubaker, ‘the tradition of nationhood’ which is based on the idea that the Croatian state is a product of the “centennial” aspirations of the ethnic Croat community to have its own national state.

This is an extended summary of a longer paper that was originally published in the CITSEE Working Paper Series and is available for download here.

Updated on: 29 March 2011

Reinventing the state: (e)migration and citizenship in Albania

Gëzim Krasniqi

Albania’s rocky path to democracy, marked by state weakness and deep political polarisation, which ultimately led to the almost-total state collapse in 1997, prevented the country from reforming and reconstructing its legal constitutional order, including citizenship legislation.

This is an extended summary of a longer paper that was originally published in the CITSEE Working Paper Series and is available for download here.

Updated on: 29 March 2011

Escaping the Balkans? After visa liberalisation

The rise in asylum seekers following visa liberalisation in the Western Balkans.

The EU accession process has brought a variety of changes to citizens of the Western Balkans, perhaps the greatest of which has been the easing of visa restrictions.

Updated on: 30 September 2011

CITSEE completes 7 case studies

CITSEE

The CITSEE team has completed the 7 case studies on citizenship regimes in all the states that emerged after the breakup of the Yugoslav Federation. This marks the completion of the first phase of research and brings the number of working papers produced so far by the CITSEE researchers and associated scholars to 17.

Updated on: 23 March 2011

CITSEE, or a trip into the unknown by Jo Shaw

When I started investigating citizenship laws and policies in the new states of South Eastern Europe on the territory of the former Yugoslavia in the mid 2000s, it seemed a remarkably empty field from an academic point of view. We cannot say this now!

Coming to the Balkans…

When I started investigating citizenship laws and policies in the new states of South Eastern Europe on the territory of the former Yugoslavia in the mid 2000s, it seemed a remarkably empty field from an academic point of view. We cannot say this now!

Updated on: 10 November 2011

Macedonian Citizen: ‘Former Yugoslav’, Future European?

Ljubica Spaskovska

Citizenship in the former Yugoslav and the Macedonian context is yet to have its dimensions of status, rights and equality strengthened and its dimension of membership/belonging weakened in importance.

This is an extended summary of a longer paper that was originally published in the CITSEE Working Paper Series and is available for download here.

Updated on: 29 March 2011

Montenegrin mists: politics, citizenship and identity

Jelena Džankić

Citizenship policies in Montenegro over last twenty years were a peculiar variant of the post-Yugoslav model, in that citizenship was not used as a mechanism of ethnic homogenisation but instead of political manoeuvring. As a result, citizenship policies in Montenegro bore many traits of the changing political environment in which they were adopted; the environment framed through the processes of state and nation building.

This is an extended summary of a longer paper that was originally published in the CITSEE Working Paper Series and is available for download here.

Updated on: 29 March 2011

Kosovo: between a ‘political club’ and a ‘divided house'

Gëzim Krasniqi

Citizenship has been a central issue in Kosovo’s state-building agenda, which aims to serve as a link between a war-torn community of people and a new polity based on principles of equality and all inclusiveness, and as a tool of political integration within the new political entity, which aims at replacing ethnic, religious and social divisions.

This is an extended summary of a longer paper that was originally published in the CITSEE Working Paper Series and is available for download here.

Updated on: 29 March 2011

Bosnia: Complex Citizenship in a Complex Country

Eldar Sarajlić

Today’s Bosnia and Herzegovina has a complex citizenship regime. It emerged as a response to instability at a particular point in the country’s history, which then became established as the dominant pattern of political interaction.

This is an extended summary of a longer paper that was originally published in the CITSEE Working Paper Series and is available for download here.

Updated on: 29 March 2011

From the inside out. Understanding citizenship through fiction

Andrew Wachtel

Can literature deepen our appreciation of citizenship? Insofar as literary works touch on the question of how individuals imagine their relationship to a community, be it strictly speaking political/legal, or more generally, they can allow us to understand attitudes toward citizenship.

This is an extended summary of a longer paper that was originally published in the CITSEE Working Paper Series and is available for download here.<

Updated on: 6 July 2011

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