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GLOBALISATION AND CITIZENSHIP

GLOBALISATION AND CITIZENSHIP. Nation-state/citizenship T.H. Marshall – political, civil, social Political community Rights Boundaries Identity Nation-state/system of nation-state Sovereignty. Effect of globalisation. Tied to impact on state Demise of nation state

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GLOBALISATION AND CITIZENSHIP

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  1. GLOBALISATION AND CITIZENSHIP

  2. Nation-state/citizenship • T.H. Marshall – political, civil, social • Political community • Rights • Boundaries • Identity • Nation-state/system of nation-state • Sovereignty

  3. Effect of globalisation • Tied to impact on state • Demise of nation state • Transformation of nation-state • Nature of transformation • State/societal relationship • Rights in nation-state or international law Human Rights? Formal equality of citizenship

  4. De-nationalized citizenship – Saskia Sassen – (global city) • Post-National Citizenship • Fragmented citizenship • Hybridity and globalization • De-territorialization of citizenship

  5. De-territorialization of citizenshipDe-nationalizing citizenship • Citizenship practices and identities • Loyalty and allegiance • Citizenship and nationality? Saskia Sassen • Not formal nationality but effective nationality • Formal nationality only in one state – allegiance to one state • Multilateral codification of law to rule out dual nationality

  6. Changes in 1980s and 1990s alter institutions of citizenship and its relation to nationality, • Dual and multiple nationalities increasing • Benefits (movement of capital, people – tied to changes in global economy) • Withdrawal of citizenship entitlements (welfare) – de-nationalizing citizenship

  7. Welfare – marker of social right, shared belonging in political community, • Allegiance and loyalty to state • De-nationalizing citizenship weaken loyalty and sense of reciprocity between individuals and citizens • Citizenship once source of social protection (welfare) under threat

  8. Stateless people, refugees, aboriginals status within states? • Alternative practices of citizenship, escape statist enclosures • Effective nationality and informal citizenship • Undocumented migrants tied to communities of residence

  9. Denizenship • Formal, legal status of citizenship absent, but access to other social goods • Immigrants vote in municipal elections • Schooling • Medical aid. • US immigration law changed in 1996 • 300,000 Salvadorans and Guatemalans suspended deportation

  10. Post-National citizenship • Citizenship as enabling social practices • Political agency separate from or not tied to formal national citizenship • (e.g. – cases of formal citizenship exclude political subjectivity – women) • Claim of post-national citizenship that citizenship is located outside national • EU?

  11. Saskia Sassen’s notion of de-nationalized citizenship – implies transformation of national • Strengthen of civil rights, • Granting rights to ‘foreign actors’ foreign firms, foreign investors, international markets, business – the boundaries of national and non-national blur

  12. Global –city – disadvantaged populations • Shanty town dwellers - political, economic cultural • Global corporate capital and immigration • Changes in institutions and social practices of citizenship • Powerlessness - • Presence = possibility of politics , concrete localities

  13. Fragmented citizenship • Dual citizenship • Multiple • EU/overlapping borders, transnational • Immigrants – women economic rights, denial of reproductive rights

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