Multilevel Citizenship.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (289 pages)
- Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism Series .
- Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism Series .
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Varieties of Multilevel Citizenship -- Part I. Migrants and Migrations -- Chapter 2. Denizen Enfranchisement and Flexible Citizenship: National Passports or Local Ballots? -- Chapter 3. Attrition through Enforcement in the "Promiseland": Overlapping Memberships and the Duties of Governments in Mexican America -- Chapter 4. Multilevel Citizenship in a Federal State: The Case of Noncitizens' Rights in the United States -- Part II. Empires and Indigeneity -- Chapter 5. When did Egyptians Stop being Ottomans? An Imperial Citizenship Case Study -- Chapter 6. The Su Bao Case and the Layers of Everyday Citizenship in China, 1894-1904 -- Chapter 7. The International Indigenous Rights Discourse and its Demands for Multilevel Citizenship -- Part III. Local, Multinational, and Postnational -- Chapter 8. Local Citizenship Politics in Switzerland: Between National Justice and Municipal Particularities -- Chapter 9. Multilevel Citizenship and the Contested Statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Chapter 10. Citizens of a New Agora: Postnational Citizenship and International Economic Institutions -- Chapter 11. Sites of Citizenship, Politics of Scales -- List of Contributors -- Notes -- Index.
Multilevel Citizenship challenges the dominant conception of citizenship as legal and political equality within a sovereign state, demonstrates how citizenship is constructed by political and legal practices, and explores alternative forms of membership in substate, suprastate, and nonstate political communities.