CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2007
| Author | Dumbrava, Costica |
|---|---|
| Title | Citizenship Policies in Eastern Europe. Acquisition and Loss of Citizenship in Sixteen Postcommunist Countries |
| Summary | The thesis provides a comparative analysis of regulations concerning acquisition and loss of citizenship in sixteen postcommunist countries in the 1990s and in the 2000s. The main objective of the study is not to explain why things happened but rather to clarify what and how they happened. How did citizenship policies evolve in the last decade? Are they more liberal/open/ethnic/European? Are they more convergent? The first part of the paper gives brief guidelines on citizenship theory and situates the analysis in normative and historical context. After deconstructing the concept of citizenship and underlining the importance of citizenship in its national determination, preliminary indications about West /East cleavage are given. In the second part, the study concentrates on the most important theses regarding the evolution of citizenship policies in the Western world, pointing out the concrete challenges that underpin them. Three major tendencies celebrated in the western literature are addressed: liberalization, ethnicization and Europeanization. The core of the analysis is laid down in the third part, systematically presenting data extracted from the citizenship regulations of sixteen Eastern European countries. The employed approach is twofold comparative: countries are compared among each other in two different periods (1990s and 2000s) and also between themselves at different moments within the same interval. Discursive arrangements and numerical scales are constructed for different branches of regulations in order to compare and measure the policy in the light of their open-ness v. restrictiveness . Fina lly, the last part of the thesis generates a summary of the findings and provides certain interpretations. In this process, the different theses advanced in the western literature are confronted, and additional comparative instruments are suggested. |
| Supervisor | Kymlicka Will |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2007/dumbrava_costica.pdf |
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