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Struggles for Belonging - Citizenship in Europe, 1900-2020 (Hardcover)
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Struggles for Belonging - Citizenship in Europe, 1900-2020 (Hardcover)
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Citizenship was the most important mark of political belonging in
Europe in the twentieth century, while estate, religion, party,
class, and nation lost political significance in the century of
extremes. This is shown by examining the legal institution of
citizenship, with its deciding influence on the limits of a
political community, on inclusion and exclusion. Citizenship
determined a person's protection, equality, and freedom and thus
his or her chances in life and very survival. This book recounts
the history of citizenship in Europe as the history of European
statehood in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It
does so from three vantage points: as the development of a legal
institution crucial to European constitutionalism; as a measure of
an individual's opportunities for self-fulfilment ranging from
freedom to totalitarian subjugation; and as a succession of
alternating, often sharply divergent political regimes, considered
from the perspective of their inclusivity and exclusivity, and its
justification. The European history of citizenship is discussed in
this book on the basis of six selected countries: Great Britain,
France, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Russia. For the first
time, a joint history of citizenship in Western and Eastern Europe
is told here, from the heyday of the nation state to our present
day, which is marked by the crises of the European Union. It is the
history of a central legal institution that significantly
represents and at the same time determines struggles over
migration, integration, and belonging. One of the central concerns
of this book is what lessons can be learned when it comes to the
future chances of European citizenship.
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