Skip to content Smaller textLarger text

Topic Page:

citizenship

Status as a member of a state. In most countries citizenship may be acquired either by birth or by naturalization. The status confers rights such as voting and the protection of the law and also imposes responsibilities such as military service, in some countries.

The UK has five different categories of citizenship, with varying rights. Under the British Nationality Act 1981, amended by the British Nationality (Falkland Islands) Act 1983 and the Hong Kong Act 1985, only a person designated as a British citizen has a right of abode in the UK; basically, anyone born in the UK to a parent who is a British citizen, or to a parent who is lawfully settled in the UK. Four other categories of citizenship are defined: British dependent territories citizenship, British overseas citizenship, British subject, and Commonwealth citizen. Rights of abode in the UK differ widely for each.

Continue reading

Helicon © RM, 2010. All rights reserved. Helicon Publishing is a division of RM.

APA | Chicago | Harvard | MLA

 
Journal articles, books, images, news and more.
Click to scroll to additional content.

IMAGES FROM CREDO

African women migrants, carrying their babies on...Hungarians headed to the polls to vote in an...
European Commission president Romano Prodi (L)...

REFERENCES

  • Aron, Raymond, “Is Multinational Citizenship Possible?”, Social Research, 41/4 (1974): 638-56.
  • Beiner, Ronald (editor), Theorizing Citizenship, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995.
  • Clarke, Paul Barry, Citizenship, London: Pluto Press, 1994.
  • Conover, Pamela Johnston; Ivor M. Crewe; Donald D. Searing, “The Nature of Citizenship in the United States and Great Britain: Empirical Comments on Theoretical Themes”, Journal of Politics, 53/3 (1991): 800-31.
  • Gardner, J. P. (editor), Hallmarks of Citizenship: A Green Paper, London: Institute for Citizenship Studies, 1994.
See more references from Credo

From Credo

  • Habermas, Jürgen, “Citizenship and National Identity: Some Reflections on the Future of Europe”, Praxis International, 12/1 (April 1991): 1-19.
  • Heater, Derek, Citizenship: The Civic Ideal in World History, Politics and Education, London and New York, Longman, 1990.
  • Kymlicka, Will; Wayne Norman, “Return of the Citizen: A Survey of Recent Work on Citizenship Theory”, Ethics, 104/2 (January 1994): 352-81.
  • Marshall, T. H., “Citizenship and Social Class” in his Citizenship and Social Class and Other Essays, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1950, edited by T. H. Marshall; Tom Bottomore, London: Pluto Press, 1991.
  • Meehan, Elizabeth, Citizenship and the European Community, London and Newbury Park, California, Sage, 1993.
  • Riesenberg, Peter, Citizenship in the Western Tradition: Plato to Rousseau, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
  • Turner, Bryan S.; Peter Hamilton, Citizenship: Critical Concepts, London and New York: Routledge, 1994.
  • Aleinikoff, Alexander, and Klusmeyer, Douglas. 2002. Citizenship Policies for an Age of Migration. Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
  • Brubaker, William Rogers, ed. 1989. Immigration and the Politics of Citizenship in Western Europe. New York: University Press of America.
  • Brubaker, William Rogers. 1992. Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
  • Council of Europe. 1997. European Convention on Nationality and Explanatory Report. European Treaty Series 166. Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing.
  • De Groot, Gerard-Rene. 1989. Staatsangehoerigkeitsrecht im Wandel. Cologne: Carl Heymanns Verlag.
  • Ferrajoli, Luigi. 1994. “Dai diritti del cittadino ai diritti della persona.” In La cittadinanza. Edited by Zolo, Danilo. Rome and Bari: Laterza.
  • Gosewinkel, Dieter. 2001. Einbuergern und Ausschliessen. Goettingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht.
  • Hansen, Randall, and Weil, Patrick, eds. 2001. Towards a European Nationality. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Hansen, Randall, and Weil, Patrick, eds. 2002. Dual Citizenship, Social Rights, and Federal Citizenship in the U.S. and Europe. Oxford: Berghahn.
  • Joppke, Christian, and Marzal, Elia. Forthcoming. “Courts, the New Constitutionalism, and Immigrant Rights.” European Journal of Political Research.
  • Joppke, Christian, and Morawska, Ewa, eds. 2003. Toward Assimilation and Citizenship: Immigrants in Liberal Nation-States. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Kymlicka, Will. 1995. Multicultural Citizenship. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Kymlicka, Will. 2003. “Immigration, Citizenship, Multiculturalism.” Political Quarterly74: 209-214.
  • Luhmann, Niklas. 1995. “Inklusion und Exclusion.” In Soziologische Aufklaerung. Vol. 6. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag.
  • Makarov, Alexander. 1947. Allgemeine Lehren des Staatsangehoerigkeitsrechts. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.
  • Marshall, Thomas H.1950. Citizenship and Social Class. London: Pluto.
  • Morris, Lydia. 2001. “Stratified Rights and the Management of Migration.” European Societies3, no. 4: 387–411.
  • Orentlicher, Diane. 1998. “Citizenship and National Identity.” In International Law and Ethnic Conflict. Edited by Wippmann, David. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
  • Rubio-Marin, Rut. 2000. Immigration as a Democratic Challenge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Scott, James C.1998. Seeing Like a State. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
  • Soysal, Yasemin. 1994. Limits to Citizenship. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Weil, Patrick. 2001. “Access to Citizenship.” In Citizenship Today. Edited by Aleinikoff, A. and Klusmeyer, D.. Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

NEWS

 
 

BOOKS

 
 

IMAGES

 
 
 
 

VIDEOS