Politics of Dual Citizenship

Abstract

Recent events in Caucasus, Crimea and Ukraine have shed new light on different understandings of citizenship and dual citizenship. The situation between Russia and Ukraine is no doubt an extreme one but there are many other modes of diaspora politics. Practicalities, as rights and duties, vary, as recently some states have even established electoral constituencies and parliamentary representation for their external citizens. Essentially granting dual citizenship is a domestic practice, which opens space for politics and politization concerning the roles of citizens. On one hand the possibility of multiple citizenships has been seen, perhaps in a somewhat touting way, as a long overdue passing of the old Westphalian state system, but as examples in Europe and elsewhere show, other perspectives are also possible. Some of them are clearly questions of power politics, both domestically and internationally. Then again, there is also a relevant international dimension, and there are numerous actors involved in these diaspora matters, like the kin-state, host-state and the citizens/minorities beyond borders themselves. Nevertheless, the discipline of IR has paid surprisingly little attention to these questions, although citizenship deals very deeply with state borders, territories, and thus intensifies questions of identity, belonging and even loyalty. The panel seeks to collect all those interested in citizenship, dual citizenship, as kin-state activity, diaspora and transnationalism. We welcome studies comparing practices in Europe and beyond, as more theoretical and conceptual approaches.

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