Citizenship Governance and its Implications for Notions of Membership and Belonging

Abstract

In this panel we address the impact of migration on traditional political concepts such as, citizenship. As a result of globalization, is it necessary to develop new political concepts to express the relationship between persons and political entities in a globalized world? Do the legal and political concepts of citizens, migrants and refugees still accurately express the relationship between individuals, territory and authority? While globalization is seen as opening up the avenue for multicultural societies and eroding state sovereignty over borders, in Europe we notice an increase in populism, right-wing political parties and a return to nationalism as a cultural and political construct that guides our understanding of legal and political membership. We invite papers that discuss the impact of globalization on nationalism and citizenship as state ideologies, and probe into the relationship between globalization, citizenship and identity as mediated through the experience of migration.

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