1st Edition

Migrating Borders Territorial Rescaling and Citizenship Realignment in Europe

Edited By Jean-Thomas Arrighi, Dejan Stjepanović Copyright 2020
160 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

Migrating Borders explores the relationship between territory and citizenship at a time when the very boundaries of the political community come into question. Made up of an interdisciplinary team of social scientists, the book provides new answers to the age-old ‘question of nationalities’ as it unfolds in a particular context – the European multilevel federation – where polities are... Read more

1. Introduction: The Rescaling of Territory and Citizenship in Europe

Jean-Thomas Arrighi and Dejan Stjepanovic

2. A Multilevel Theory of Democratic Secession

Rainer Bauböck

3. State Formation under International Supervision and the Construction of Hierarchies in National Membership: A Balkan Story

Maja Spanu

4. The Right to Vote: Constitutive Referendums and Regional Citizenship

Dejan Stjepanovic & Stephen Tierney

5. ‘The People, Year Zero’: Citizenship and the Politics of Independence in Scotland and Catalonia

Jean-Thomas Arrighi

6. Contested States as Liminal Spaces of Citizenship: Comparing Kosovo and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus

Gëzim Krasniqi

7. Roma in Times of Territorial Rescaling: An Inquiry into the Margins of European Citizenship

Julija Sardelic

8. The Regional Battleground: Partisanship as a Key Driver of the Subnational Contestation of Citizenship

Lorenzo Piccoli

9. Is a Theory of Self-determination Possible?

Michael Keating

Biography

Jean-Thomas Arrighi is a Research Fellow at the Swiss Forum of Migration and Population Studies of the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.





Dejan Stjepanović is a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Dundee, UK.