Articles for tag: Asyl, Migration, Staatsbürgerschaft

Status, Accountability and Community after 9/11

Migration and citizenship law are politically configurable matters, like all others. All terrorist threats affect the state's duty to protect life, possibly state infrastructure and the sense of security in the public sphere. Picking up a connection to migration, in contrast to already existing domes-tic right-wing and left-wing extremism, can promise a quick reduction of external dangers in the political competition. Certainly, most people reject an equation of migration and terrorism as politically backwards. However, the image of migration being infiltrated by terrorism is effective.

4. November 2021

Asyl, Migration, Staatsbürgerschaft

Was heißt hier eigentlich ausufernd?

Tarik Tabbara

Über „Rasse“ und Rassismus im Recht wird in letzter Zeit so intensiv diskutiert wie nie zuvor in Deutschland. In welche Widersprüche man dabei geraten kann, wurde in dieser Woche im Bundestag sichtbar: Während im Rechtsausschuss der Begriff „rassistisch“ im Grundgesetz abgelehnt wurde, weil er „völlig unbestimmt“ sei und eine ausufernde Rechtsprechung zu befürchten sei, einigte man sich fast zeitgleich im Innenausschuss darauf eben diesen Begriff im Staatsangehörigkeitsgesetz als Ausschlussgrund für Einbürgerungen zu verwenden. Auch diese Episode der Rechtspolitik zeigt erneut, dass Deutschland beim Umgang mit „Rasse“ und Rassismus im Recht immer noch erheblichen Entwicklungsbedarf hat.

24. Juni 2021

Art. 3 GG, Einbürgerung, Rasse, Rassismus, Staatsbürgerschaft

“Passport Trade”: A Vicious Cycle of Nonsense in the Netherlands

Dimitry Vladimirovich Kochenov

“How can you justify the fact that your work was translated into Russian? This goes against the claim that you engage in academic work. Is Russian not the language of billionaires interested in getting another citizenship?” Following the persistent repetition of this question by a four-person independent investigation committee installed by my home University, my lawyer, seeing that I have no words – indeed, am unable to speak – asks for a break and leads me out of the room. We sit on the steps in front of the beautiful Academy building. This is Groningen, January 2020, I am a Dutch professor of European Constitutional Law and Citizenship here and Russian is my mother tongue.

8. Juni 2020

Academic Freedom, Staatsbürgerschaft

The Constitutional Status of Indigenous Australians

Cheryl Saunders

In two recent judgments, the apex Australian court, the High Court, decided what intuitively seems obvious: that Aboriginal Australians, as that term is understood in Australian law, cannot be deported from Australia. The case exposed several fault lines that run through Australian law.

28. Februar 2020

Abschiebung, High Court of Australia, Indigenous Australians, Post-Colonialism, Staatsbürgerschaft

From De Facto Urban Citizenship to Open Borders

Monica W. Varsanyi

I will take Rainer Bauböck's closing words as my point of departure and offer an answer that is less predictive and normative, and more empirical. I agree with his assertion that we need a robust urban citizenship. I would suggest that we already have some important examples of urban citizenship that challenge and complement national citizenship in crucial ways and it is important to shine a light on those examples to chart a course forward.

24. Januar 2020

Sanctuary Cities, Staatsbürgerschaft, Urbane Bürgerschaft

‘Zombie Urbanism’ and the Search for New Sources of Solidarity

Sandra Seubert

How can ‘staged urbanism’ provide spaces of urban citizenship? Under what conditions can urban citizenship “contribute to overall democratic integration within and beyond nation-states”?

23. Januar 2020

Solidarität, Staatsbürgerschaft, Urbanism

What’s the Added Value of Legalising City-zenship?

Josephine van Zeben

Josephine van Zeben's response to Bauböck’s reflections on urban citizenship considers some legal implications of the postnational view that Bauböck finds most promising. Specifically, it questions how suited citizenship is – as a legal instrument – for accommodating the concerns raised in Bauböck’s contribution.

22. Januar 2020

Staatsbürgerschaft, Urbane Bürgerschaft

Urban Citizenship Threatens Democratic Equality

Patti Tamara Lenard

It seems urgent that “urban citizenship” is properly characterised to understand not only the rights and responsibilities citizens of cities may well have, but also their grounding. I have no quarrel with this project. However, so far, accounts of urban citizenship – like Rainer Bauböck’s in the piece that launched this forum – do too little to consider the citizenship that is “left over” for those who do not, or cannot, move to cities.

21. Januar 2020

Democratic Equality, Staatsbürgerschaft, Urbane Bürgerschaft

City-zenship and national citizenship: complementary and competing but not emancipated from each other

Nir Barak

Nir Barak deepens the ambivalence in Rainer Bauböck’s account of urban citizenship and suggests a skeptical but friendly critique towards notions of emancipating urban citizenship from nationality. The relationship between urban and national citizenship should not be seen as mutually exclusive; claims for enhancing city-zenship and decentralizing state power are warranted only insofar as they provide forward-thinking urban response to the decline in democratic participation and civic solidarity at national levels.

21. Januar 2020

City-zenship, Staatsbürgerschaft, Urbane Bürgerschaft, Urbanization

Thinking Like a City, Thinking Like a State

Avner de Shalit

The city is not only a "densely populated area of continuous settlement, which is organized as a single jurisdiction" (an often used formal definition of a city); the city is also a state of mind, a certain political and social consciousness.

20. Januar 2020

Staatsangehörigkeit, Staatsbürgerschaft, Urbane Bürgerschaft