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The Political Challenges of Bounded, Unequal Citizenships

  • Rogers M. Smith
Published/Copyright: October 24, 2011
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Issues in Legal Scholarship
From the journal Issues in Legal Scholarship Volume 9 Issue 1

The Citizen and the Alien and The Birthright Lottery are outstanding works by scholars well informed on both law and moral philosophy. Their enterprises can be constructively carried further by increased engagement with the politics shaping modern nation-state citizenships. Bosniak’s seminal analysis of the inconsistencies in immigration and citizenship policies can be extended by further engagement with the range of arguments used to defend restrictively bounded national citizenships. Shachar’s bold and original recommendations for lessening the trans-national inequalities of the modern nation-state system might be furthered by building also on obligations stemming from the mutually constitutive past and present relationships between particular richer and poorer states.

Published Online: 2011-10-24

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Articles in the same Issue

  1. Article
  2. Denaturalizing Citizenship: An Introduction
  3. Making Membership
  4. Boundaries and Birthright: Bosniak's and Shachar's Critiques of Liberal Citizenship
  5. The Political Challenges of Bounded, Unequal Citizenships
  6. The Dark Side of Citizenship: Membership, Territory, and the (Anti-) Democratic Polity
  7. Rethinking Citizenship through Alienage and Birthright Privilege: Bosniak and Shachar's Critiques of Liberal Citizenship
  8. Creedal Citizenship
  9. Prohibited Realities and Fractured Persons: Remaking Lives in Transnational Spaces
  10. Developing Citizenship
  11. The Geometry of Inside and Outside
  12. Alien Equality
  13. Making Sense of Citizenship
  14. The Birthright Lottery: Response to Interlocutors
https://doi.org/10.2202/1539-8323.1124

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Article
  2. Denaturalizing Citizenship: An Introduction
  3. Making Membership
  4. Boundaries and Birthright: Bosniak's and Shachar's Critiques of Liberal Citizenship
  5. The Political Challenges of Bounded, Unequal Citizenships
  6. The Dark Side of Citizenship: Membership, Territory, and the (Anti-) Democratic Polity
  7. Rethinking Citizenship through Alienage and Birthright Privilege: Bosniak and Shachar's Critiques of Liberal Citizenship
  8. Creedal Citizenship
  9. Prohibited Realities and Fractured Persons: Remaking Lives in Transnational Spaces
  10. Developing Citizenship
  11. The Geometry of Inside and Outside
  12. Alien Equality
  13. Making Sense of Citizenship
  14. The Birthright Lottery: Response to Interlocutors
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