International Citizenship: The Future of Nationality in a Globalised World

The repositioning of citizenship and alienage: Emergent subjects and spaces for politics∗

“…There were no international accords on dual nationality. The main effort by the international system remained rooting out the causes of dual nationality by means of multilateral codification of the law on the subject (Rubenstein & Adler, 2000). It is probably the case that this particular form of the institution of citizenship, centered on exclusive allegiance, reached its highpoint in the twentieth century.…”

“…The long lasting resistance to dual or multiple nationality is shifting towards a selective acceptance. According to some legal scholars (Spiro, 1997;Rubenstein & Adler, 2000), in the future dual and multiple nationality will become the norm. Today, we see growing numbers of people with dual nationality (Spiro, 1997).…”

The Repositioning of Citizenship: Emergent Subjects and Spaces for Politics

“…There were no international accords on dual nationality. The main effort by the international system remained rooting out the causes of dual nationality by means of multilateral codification of the law on the subject (Rubenstein and Adler 2000). It is probably the case that this particular form of the institution of citizenship, centered on exclusive allegiance, reached its highpoint in the twentieth century.…”

“…The long lasting resistance to dual or multiple nationality is shifting towards a selective acceptance. According to some legal scholars (Spiro 1997;Rubenstein and Adler 2000) in the future dual and multiple nationality will become the norm. Today, more people than ever before have dual nationality (Spiro 1997).…”

Towards Post-National and Denationalized Citizenship

“…This negative perception of dual nationality continued into the first half of the twentieth century and well into the 1960s. The main effort by the international system was to root out the causes of dual nationality by means of multilateral codification of the law on the subject (Rubenstein, and Adler, 2000).…”