Citizenship

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

The papers on this panel look at citizenship not simply as a set of rules but as a dynamic process. Citizenship can be increased through naturalization and suffrage or decreased through legal restrictions at both state and sub-state levels. These papers look at relative openness on legal status among localities, information campaigns, comparative legal history, and suffrage as among the various drivers of citizenship among foreign-born populations.

Sub Unit

• Division 52: Migration & Citizenship

Cosponsor

• Division 15: European Politics and Society

Individual Presentations

• Alien Enfranchisement, Inter-immigrant Dynamics and Political Behavior - Anna-Lena Nadler; Elif Naz Kayran, Leiden University

• How Liberal and Illiberal Localities Help Construct Legal Status and Citizenship - Andres Besserer Rayas, The Graduate Center, City University of New York; Robert Courtney Smith, Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, Baruch College, and Sociology, Grad Center, CUNY

Chair

• Elaine K. Denny University of California, Merced

Discussant

• Willem Maas York University