Super-foreigners and Sub-citizens

Mapping Ethno-national Hierarchies of Foreignness and Citizenship in Europe

Bibliographic Data

ID12891973
AuthorsCostica Dumbrava (0000-0002-2211-1444, Maastricht University, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume14
Issue3
Pages296-310
Publication date2015-01-07
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnopolitics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1744-9057 • E-ISSN: 1744-9065
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17449057.2014.994883
OpenAlexW2030520853
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited30

From the viewpoint of the state, a person is either a citizen or a foreigner. National citizenship laws divide people into citizens and foreigners. But citizenship laws also differentiate between categories of citizens and foreigners by granting certain foreigners (super-foreigners) preferential admission to citizenship and by restricting citizenship rights and privileges to certain citizens (sub-citizens). This article analyses comparatively current legal rules on the acquisition and loss of citizenship and on the exercise of citizenship privileges in 38 European countries in order to map ethno-national hierarchies of foreignness and citizenship. It builds a typology of ethno-national rules of citizenship and challenges widely held theses about the liberalisation and de-ethnicisation of citizenship regimes in Europe

Citizenship · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Typology · Anthropology · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Populism, Right-Wing Movements

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