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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open
Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
Between 1914 and the present day the political makeup of the
Balkans has relentlessly changed, following unpredictable shifts of
international and internal borders. Between and across these
borders various political communities were formed, co-existed and
(dis)integrated. By analysing one hundred years of modern
citizenship in Yugoslavia and post-Yugoslav states, Igor Stiks
shows that the concept and practice of citizenship is necessary to
understand how political communities are made, un-made and re-made.
He argues that modern citizenship is a tool that can be used for
different and opposing goals, from integration and re-unification
to fragmentation and ethnic engineering. The study of citizenship
in the 'laboratory' of the Balkands offers not only an original
angle to narrate an alternative political history, but also an
insight into the fine mechanics and repeating glitches of modern
politics, applicable to multinational states in the European Union
and beyond.
This book is the first comprehensive examination of the citizenship
regimes of the new states that emerged out of the break up of
Yugoslavia. It covers both the states that emerged out of the
initial disintegration across 1991 and 1992 (Slovenia, Croatia,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and
Macedonia), as well as those that have been formed recently through
subsequent partitions (Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo). While
citizenship has often been used as a tool of ethnic engineering to
reinforce the position of the titular majority in many states, in
other cases citizenship laws and practices have been liberalised as
part of a wider political settlement intended to include minority
communities more effectively in the political process. Meanwhile,
frequent (re)definitions of these increasingly overlapping regimes
still provoke conflicts among post-Yugoslav states. This volume
shows how important it is for the field of citizenship studies to
take into account the main changes in and varieties of citizenship
regimes in the post-Yugoslav states, as a particular case of new
state citizenship. At the same time, it seeks to show scholars of
(post) Yugoslavia and the wider Balkans that the Yugoslav crisis,
disintegration and wars as well as the current functioning of the
new and old Balkan states, together with the process of their
integration into the EU, cannot be fully understood without a
deeper understanding of their citizenship regimes. This book was
originally published as a special issue of Citizenship Studies.
This book is the first comprehensive examination of the citizenship
regimes of the new states that emerged out of the break up of
Yugoslavia. It covers both the states that emerged out of the
initial disintegration across 1991 and 1992 (Slovenia, Croatia,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and
Macedonia), as well as those that have been formed recently through
subsequent partitions (Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo). While
citizenship has often been used as a tool of ethnic engineering to
reinforce the position of the titular majority in many states, in
other cases citizenship laws and practices have been liberalised as
part of a wider political settlement intended to include minority
communities more effectively in the political process. Meanwhile,
frequent (re)definitions of these increasingly overlapping regimes
still provoke conflicts among post-Yugoslav states. This volume
shows how important it is for the field of citizenship studies to
take into account the main changes in and varieties of citizenship
regimes in the post-Yugoslav states, as a particular case of new
state citizenship. At the same time, it seeks to show scholars of
(post) Yugoslavia and the wider Balkans that the Yugoslav crisis,
disintegration and wars as well as the current functioning of the
new and old Balkan states, together with the process of their
integration into the EU, cannot be fully understood without a
deeper understanding of their citizenship regimes. This book was
originally published as a special issue of Citizenship Studies.
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open
Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
Between 1914 and the present day the political makeup of the
Balkans has relentlessly changed, following unpredictable shifts of
international and internal borders. Between and across these
borders various political communities were formed, co-existed and
(dis)integrated. By analysing one hundred years of modern
citizenship in Yugoslavia and post-Yugoslav states, Igor Stiks
shows that the concept and practice of citizenship is necessary to
understand how political communities are made, un-made and re-made.
He argues that modern citizenship is a tool that can be used for
different and opposing goals, from integration and re-unification
to fragmentation and ethnic engineering. The study of citizenship
in the 'laboratory' of the Balkands offers not only an original
angle to narrate an alternative political history, but also an
insight into the fine mechanics and repeating glitches of modern
politics, applicable to multinational states in the European Union
and beyond.
In today's world all claims tend to be founded on or justified by
'rights', be they political, social, economic or private. The
ubiquity of this discourse has led to a blurring of the definition
of what exactly constitutes rights, not to mention a blurring of
the boundaries between different bundles of rights, their sources
and the various institutional practices through which they are
'enjoyed' or asserted. Particular attention needs to be paid to the
category of 'citizenship rights'. Exactly how are they
distinguished from human rights? This volume presents some of the
most important reflections and studies on citizenship rights, both
past and present. The contributions provide both thorough
description and incisive analysis and place the question of
citizenship rights into a wider historical, social and political
perspective. As such, it offers a timely introduction to the
current debates surrounding the rights and duties of both citizens
and non-citizens alike, with a focus on the many ways in which
citizenship is contested in the contemporary world. The volume is
invaluable to scholars and students of citizenship studies,
political and critical theory, human rights, sociology, urban
development and law.
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