Date: 2017
Type: Contribution to book
Naturalization
Ayelet SHACHAR, Rainer BAUBÖCK, Irene BLOEMRAAD and Maarten Peter VINK (eds), The Oxford handbook of citizenship, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017, Oxford handbooks, pp. 337-357[Global Governance Programme], [Global Citizenship Governance], [Global Citizenship]
ORGAD, Liav, Naturalization, in Ayelet SHACHAR, Rainer BAUBÖCK, Irene BLOEMRAAD and Maarten Peter VINK (eds), The Oxford handbook of citizenship, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017, Oxford handbooks, pp. 337-357[Global Governance Programme], [Global Citizenship Governance], [Global Citizenship] - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/48849
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The manner in which new citizens should be created is one of the most complex questions in political theory. The law of naturalization functions as a gatekeeper—it is designed to include the desirable people and exclude the undesirable ones. This chapter explores legal and theoretical aspects of naturalization. Part I addresses the ultimate goal of naturalization—what function does it serve?—by presenting three goals: contract, political test, and nation-building. Part II seeks to present three ways to assess the ethics of naturalization, drawing on conceptual and utilitarian grounds. Part III examines three trends in naturalization policy in the West—legalization, devaluation, and liberalization (followed by a restrictive turn). Naturalization has been internationalized in the direction of creating a right to citizenship; citizenship is becoming a “commodity” whose nature is increasingly influenced by economic considerations; and the process of liberalization in access to the status of citizenship is facing a cultural restrictive turn.
Additional information:
Print Publication Date: Aug 2017 - Online Publication Date: Sep 2017
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/48849
Full-text via DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198805854.001.0001; 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198805854.013.15
ISBN: 9780198805854
Series/Number: [Global Governance Programme]; [Global Citizenship Governance]; [Global Citizenship]
Other topic(s): Citizenship
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