Transnational citizenship and the democratic state: modes of membership and voting rights

Owen, David

doi:10.1080/13698230.2011.617123

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“…Indeed, Rubio‐Marin, Carens, and De Schutter and Ypi argue that citizenship should be mandatory for long‐term immigrants on grounds of consistency with birthright citizenship allocation principles (Carens, , p. 41), the avoidance of political subjection (Rubio‐Marin, ), and fairness in the distribution of the burdens of citizenship (De Schutter & Ypi, , p. 237). (For contrasting views, see Baubock, , and Owen, . )…”

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The rights and duties of immigrants in liberal societies

Higgins

2018

Philosophy Compass

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What legal rights and duties immigrants should have is among the most ferociously debated topics in the politics of liberal societies today. However, as this article will show, there is remarkably little disagreement of great magnitude among political theorists and philosophers of immigration on the rights and duties of resident immigrants (even in contrast to the closely related philosophical discussion of justice in immigrant admissions). Specifically, this article will survey philosophical positions both on what legal rights immigrants (documented permanent residents, guest workers, and undocumented immigrants) ought to have (including to citizenship and against deportation) and on what liberal societies may justly do to require immigrants to integrate. This article will reveal that there is a substantial, growing gap between contemporary politics worldwide and what the moral norms of liberalism seem to entail concerning the rights and duties of immigrants.

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The rights and duties of immigrants in liberal societies

Higgins

2018

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“…Scholars have written much less on how to understand these multiple changes in spatial terms and about whether we might better grasp practices of transnational citizenship by scrutinizing and theorizing their spatial configurations further. Symptomatic in this regard is the still widespread tendency to mirror transnational citizenship against nation-state citizenship, and build the argument about its viability on whether one could conceivably meet its conditions on a world scale (Benhabib 2007;Owen 2011;Thaa 2001). Moreover, expressions such as 'peripheral countries are more susceptible to world influences' and 'human rights language is at least partially driven by processes exogenous to a country' testify to a dichotomous imagination along the dimensions of inside/outside and national/global (Beck et al 2012: 495).…”

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“…Symptomatic in this regard is the still widespread tendency to mirror transnational citizenship against nation-state citizenship, and build the argument about its viability on the basis of whether its conditions can conceivably be met on a world scale (Benhabib 2007;Owen 2011;Thaa 2001).…”

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Children's rights advocacy as transnational citizenship

Häkli

Kallio

2015

Global Networks

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This paper develops conceptual tools for analyzing the practices of children's rights organizations and professionals as transnational citizenship. To this end, we set out to trace a continuum of citizenship practices where global and local influences and forces enmesh in ways that cannot be grasped if the two are treated as separate realms. To theorize the social dynamism and spatial constitution of transnational citizenship as a local-global continuum, we turn to Bourdieuan field theoretical thinking. By analyzing the handling of the Finnish Periodic Report on children's rights by the Committee on the Rights of the Child, and the mobilization of its recommendations by Finnish children's rights advocates, we show that transnational citizenship in the field of children's rights is practiced not merely 'out there' but also 'right here'. We conclude by discussing what novel insights field theory has to offer to the study of advocacy practices as transnational citizenship.

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“…1 Another principle is the nondomination principle which holds that all who are subject to the coercive force of the law ought to have a say in deciding that law (Abizadeh 2008). Related principles include the subjects-to-the-law principle which holds that all who are subject to the law ought to have a say in formulating that law (see Lopez-Guerra 2005;Owen 2011 andRubioMarın 2000), the stakeholder principle (Bauböck 2007) and the social membership principle (Carens 2005). These principles emphasize different dimensions of democratic citizenship including the right to enjoy a secure sense of belonging, the right to have one's interests taken into account and the right to participate in shaping a community's common projects.…”

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Voting Rights for Non-citizens: Treasure or Fool’s Gold?

Eisenberg

2014

Int. Migration & Integration

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Proposals to extend the franchise to non-citizens have recently been defended on the basis of principles of democratic inclusion that challenge the sovereign authority of states to decide who may participate as a member in the democratic constituency. Here the requirement of extending the franchise to non-citizens is considered in the context of municipalities dominated by national minorities and in light of the claims of national minorities to self-rule. In these contexts, the settlement and enfranchisement of migrants sometimes dilute the strength and increase the costs of minority nationalist policies. The political dynamics created by extending voting rights to non-citizens where national minorities struggle for self-rule illuminate that moral arguments for extending voting rights to non-citizens can confuse two issues, the first being who has the right to participate in shaping the common projects of a democratic community and the second being whose interests should be considered in the course of decision making by that community. In these contexts, non-citizens have the right to have their interests considered and to have their rights taken seriously, but they may not have a strong claim to participate as voters in community decision making.In the last 30 years, efforts to enfranchise non-citizens who reside within territories dominated by national minorities have intensified political conflict where national minorities are engaged in ongoing political struggles for linguistic and cultural security within multinational states. In many of these struggles, national minorities seek jurisdictional authority over policies related to immigration and immigrant settlement in order to control the terms and conditions of admission of new members to the polity. For

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Transnational citizenship and the democratic state: modes of membership and voting rights

Cited by 42 publications

References 21 publications

The rights and duties of immigrants in liberal societies

The rights and duties of immigrants in liberal societies

Children's rights advocacy as transnational citizenship

Voting Rights for Non-citizens: Treasure or Fool’s Gold?

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