Citizenship Studies, Volume 13, Issue 5 on "Realignments of Citizenship", edited by Bauböck and Guiraudon

Citizenship Studies has just published an issue on Realignments of Citizenship in Europe, edited by Rainer Bauböck and Virginie Guiraudon. This special issue discusses realignments of citizenship that challenge the common equation between the community of citizens and territorial populations of independent states form political philosophy, political science and legal perspectives. Contributions by the editors, Christine Chwaszcza, Michael Keating and Bruno de Witte. Click here for the table of contents.

Struggles for Citizenship in Africa brings together new material from across Africa of the most egregious examples of citizenship discrimination, and makes the case for urgent reform of laws and practices.

You can download the report from this page.

Citizenship Law in Africa is a comparative study by the Open Society Justice Initiative and Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project. It describes the often arbitrary, discriminatory, and contradictory citizenship laws that exist from state to state, and recommends ways that African countries can bring their citizenship laws in line with international legal norms.

You can download the whole report from this page.

Rainer Bauböck , Bemhard Perchinig, Wiebke Sievers, editors, 2009: Citizenship Policies in the New Europe, Amsterdam University Press, August 2009

Elspeth Guild, Kees Groenendijk and Sergio Carrera, 2009: Illiberal Liberal States. Immigration, Citizenship and Integration in the EU, Ashgate, October 2009 

For a preview of the book on Amsterdam University Press, please click here.

To download a leaflet presenting the book, click here.

For an overview of the book on Ashgate, please click here.

To download chapter 1: Understanding the Contest of Community, click here

Marc Morjé Howard: Citizenship Politics in Europe, New York: Cambridge University Press, September 2009

Gianluca Parolin, 2009: Citizenship in the Arab World, Amsterdam University Press

This book offers a comparative political science analysis why European states have adopted different citizenship policies and why citizenship regimes in certain states have become more liberal in recent years.

This book takes a broader legal perspective to the multifaceted reality of nationality and citizenship in the Arab world.