Practising citizenship and heterogeneous nationhood: naturalisations in Swiss municipalities

Abstract: Switzerland likely has the most particular naturalization system in the world. Whereas in most countries citizenship attribution is regulated at the central level of the state, in Switzerland each municipality is accorded the right to decide who can become a Swiss citizen. This book aims at exploring naturalization processes from a comparative perspective and to explain why some municipalities pursue more restrictive citizenship policies than others. The Swiss case provides a unique opportunity to approach citizenship politics from new perspectives. It allows us to go beyond formal citizenship models and to account for the practice of citizenship. The analytical framework combines quantitative and qualitative data and helps us understand how negotiation processes between political actors lead to a large variety of local citizenship models. An innovative theoretical framework, integrating Bourdieu's political sociology, combines symbolic and material aspects of naturalizations and u

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
ISBN
9789089640345
Umfang
Online-Ressource, 214 S.
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Klassifikation
Politik

Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Amsterdam
(wer)
Amsterdam Univ. Press
(wann)
2008
Urheber

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-271805
Rechteinformation
Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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