The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship

Contrary to predictions that it would become increasingly redundant in a globalizing world, citizenship is back with a vengeance. The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship brings together leading experts in law, philosophy, political science, economics, sociology, and geography to provide a multidisciplinary, comparative discussion of different dimensions of citizenship: as legal status and political membership; as rights and obligations; as identity and belonging; as civic virtues and practices of engagement; and as a discourse of political and social equality or responsibility for a common good.

The contributors engage with some of the oldest normative and substantive quandaries in the literature, dilemmas that have renewed salience in today's political climate. As well as setting an agenda for future theoretical and empirical explorations, this Handbook explores the state of citizenship today in an accessible and engaging manner that will appeal to a wide academic and non-academic audience. Chapters highlight variations in citizenship regimes practiced in different countries, from immigrant states to 'non-western' contexts, from settler societies to newly independent states, attentive to both migrants and those who never cross an international border. Topics include the 'selling' of citizenship, multilevel citizenship, in-between statuses, citizenship laws, post-colonial citizenship, the impact of technological change on citizenship, and other cutting-edge issues.

This Handbook is the major reference work for those engaged with citizenship from a legal, political, and cultural perspective. Written by the most knowledgeable senior and emerging scholars in their fields, this comprehensive volume offers state-of-the-art analyses of the main challenges and prospects of citizenship in today's world of increased migration and globalization. Special emphasis is put on the question of whether inclusive and egalitarian citizenship can provide political legitimacy in a turbulent world of exploding social inequality and resurgent populism.

Ayelet Shachar, Director, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, and Professor of Law and Political Science, University of Toronto,Rainer Baubock, Professor of Social and Political Theory, European University Institute,Irene Bloemraad, Thomas Garden Barnes Chair of Canadian Studies, University of California, Berkeley,Maarten Vink, Chair in Political Science, Maastricht University

Ayelet Shachar is Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity and Professor of Law and Political Science, University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Before joining the Max Planck Society, she held the Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and Multiculturalism at the University of Toronto Faculty Law, and was also the Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor in Human Rights at Stanford Law School and the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School.

Rainer Baubock holds a chair in social and political theory at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the European University Institute. In 2003-2005, he was President of the Austrian Association of Political Science.


Irene Bloemraad is Professor of Sociology and the Thomas Garden Barnes Chair of Canadian Studies at Berkeley. She is also a Senior Fellow with the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and served in 2014-15 as a member of the US National Academies of Sciences committee reporting on the integration of immigrants into American society.


Maarten Vink holds the Chair of Political Science with a focus on Political Sociology at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. He is Co-Director of the Maastricht Center for Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE) where he currently leads the research project 'Migrant Life Course and Legal Status Transition (MiLifeStatus)' funded by a Consolidator Grant of the European Research Council (2016-2021).

Part I Opening Pages
1. Introduction, Ayelet Shachar, Rainer Baubock, Irene Bloemraad, and Maarten Vink
Part II Approaches and Perspectives
2. Revisiting the Classical Ideal of Citizenship, Ryan Balot
3. Re-Scaling the Geography of Citizenship, Alexander Diener
4. Political Membership and Democratic Boundaries, Rainer Baubock
5. Liberal and Republican Conceptions of Citizenship, Iseult Honohan
6. Citizenship and Nationhood, Chaim Gans
7. The History of Racialized Citizenship, David FitzGerald
8. Feminist, Sexual, and Queer Citizenship, Leti Volpp
9. Postcolonial Citizenship, Kamal Sadiq
10. Economic Theories of Citizenship Ascention, Don DeVoretz and Nahikari Irastorza
11. Comparing Citizenship Regimes, Maarten Vink
Part III Membership and Rights
12. Citizenship and Human Rights, David Owen
13. Citizenship and Cultural Diversity, Daniel Weinstock
14. Citizenship and the Franchise, Jo Shaw
15. Status Non-Citizens, Linda Bosniak
16. Naturalization, Liav Orgad
17. Denationalization, Matthew Gibney
Part IV Context and Practice
18. Citizenship in Immigrant States, Christian Joppke
19. Citizenship and State Transition, Oxana Shevel
20. Citizenship in Non-Western Contexts, Erin Chung
21. Indigenous Citizenship in Settler States, Kirsty Gover
22. Secular and Religious Citizenship, Bryan S. Turner
23. Performative Citizenship, Engin Isin
24. Does Citizenship Matter?, Irene Bloemraad
Part V Membership in the State and Beyond
25. The Place of Territory in Citizenship, Neil Walker
26. Diasporas and Transnational Citizenship, Michael Collyer
27. Fragmentation of Citizenship Governance, Joel Trachtman
28. Multiple Citizenship, Peter Spiro
29. Multilevel Citizenship, Willem Maas
30. Supranational Citizenship, Francesca Strumia
31. Cosmopolitan Citizenship, Kok-Chor Tan
Part VI Tomorrow's Challenges
32. On Refugeehood and Citizenship, Cathryn Costello
33. Statelessness, "In-Between" Statuses, and Precarious Citizenship, Noora Lori
34. Citizenship and Technology, Costica Dumbrava
35. Citizenship for Sale?, Ayelet Shachar
36. Citizenship and Membership Duties Toward Quasi-Citizens, Rogers Smith
37. Inclusive Citizenship Beyond the Capacity Context, Will Kymlicka and Sue Donaldson