Contesting Citizenship: Comparative Analyses

Kravet om lige medborgerskab kompliceres af to nye udviklinger: Multi-level governance og krav om gruppe-anerkendelse. Disse udviklinger påvirker den måde medborgerskab praktiseres og analyseres. Det er ikke længere nok at koble medborgermodeller til bestemte nationalstater og evaluere dem i relation til formelle krav om lighed. Komparative medorgeranalyser må bedømmes ud fra mangfoldige uligheder og samspillet imellem disse og ud fra multi-level governance og transnational organisering. Dette betyder at komparative medborgeranalyser må udforske nye arenaer hvor kampe for lige medborgerskab udspilles og nye dynamikker og interaktionen mellem dem. Udgivelsesdato: DecemberThe pursuit of equal citizenship has been complicated by two recent developments: the emergence of multi-level governance (and with it the growing importance of local, regional and global levels of citizenship practices) and the emrgence of group recognition claims (which signals the growing importance of particularized experiences and multiple ineequality agendas). These developments shape the way citizenship is both practiced and analysed. Mapping neat citizenship modles onto distinct nation-states and evaluating these in relation to formal equality is no longer an adequate approach. Comparative citizenship analyses need to be considered in relation to multipleinequalities and their intersections and to multiple governance and trans-national organisinf. This, in turn, suggests that comparative citizenship analysis needs to consider new spaces in which struggles for equal citizenship occur and new dynamics interactions between them