The paper examines the dynamics of dual citizenship. The key interest is to review (1) to what extent the liberalisation of the legislation on multiple citizenship has continued in the last decade and (2) in which ways this has been reflected in international media coverage and discourse. In this way we examine to which extent the post 9/11 securitisation has impacted the trends in multiple citizenship legislation but also how well this is reflected in the rhetoric of national and international institutions and the contemporary mediatised public sphere.
The empirical study focuses on Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia and Croatia. Here we find both the experiences of post communism, rebuilding nation states and Europeanization. CEE has historically been relatively conservative in citizenship regulation and is the current location of most of the tensions of (multiple) statehood and citizenship (Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine), the aforementioned liberalisation-securitisation tensions should be empirically well reflected.
