Who Belongs to the Nation? Identity, Citizenship, and the Politics of Belonging

Abstract

This panel examines different configurations of national belonging, from ethnic perceptions to class-positions, educational access and spatial inequalities. It brings together papers that examine how national belonging is defined, taught, perceived, and contested. Collectively, the papers show how (the politics of) national belonging operates not as a fixed set of inclusionary and exclusionary measure but as a set of shifting boundaries that determine who counts as a legitimate member of nation states, under what conditions, and with what consequences for inclusion/exclusion and, notably, democratic cohesion.

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Who Counts as “One of Us”? Sociocultural Belonging and the Boundaries of the Nation	View Paper Details
Occupational Segregation and Spatial Inequalities in Support for Right-Wing Populist Parties. Drawing on Three Decades of Data from the Socio-Economic Panel (1992–2022)	View Paper Details
Cultural Citizenship and ‘Minority’ Belonging Through the Curriculum in Post-Handover Hong Kong	View Paper Details
From Social Contract to Economic Contractualism: How Commodification of Citizenship Transforms the Contemporary Understanding of State Membership and National Belonging	View Paper Details
Mapping National Identity: Public Attitudes in the United Kingdom and Australia	View Paper Details