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Transnational citizenship and the democratic state: Modes of membership and voting rights

Transnational citizenship and the democratic state: Modes of membership and voting rights
Transnational citizenship and the democratic state: Modes of membership and voting rights

This article addresses two central topics in normative debates on transnational citizenship: the inclusion of resident non-citizens and of nonresident citizens within the demos. Through a critical review of the social membership (Carens, Rubio-Marin) and stakeholder (Baubock) principles, it identifies two problems within these debates. The first is the antinomy of incorporation, namely, the point that there are compelling arguments both for the mandatory naturalization of permanent residents and for making naturalization a voluntary process. The second is the arbitrary demos problem and concerns who determines whether expatriate voting rights are granted (and on what terms). The argument developed provides a way of dissolving the first problem (and defending the proposed solution against possible objections) and resolving the second problem. In doing so it provides a defensible normative basis for the political theory of transnational citizenship.

Democracy, Membership, Migration, Transnational citizenship, Voting rights
299-322
Taylor & Francis
Owen, David
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Shaw, Jo
Štiks, Igor
Owen, David
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Shaw, Jo
Štiks, Igor

Owen, David (2017) Transnational citizenship and the democratic state: Modes of membership and voting rights. In, Shaw, Jo and Štiks, Igor (eds.) Citizenship Rights. Taylor & Francis, pp. 299-322. (doi:10.4324/9781315260211).

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This article addresses two central topics in normative debates on transnational citizenship: the inclusion of resident non-citizens and of nonresident citizens within the demos. Through a critical review of the social membership (Carens, Rubio-Marin) and stakeholder (Baubock) principles, it identifies two problems within these debates. The first is the antinomy of incorporation, namely, the point that there are compelling arguments both for the mandatory naturalization of permanent residents and for making naturalization a voluntary process. The second is the arbitrary demos problem and concerns who determines whether expatriate voting rights are granted (and on what terms). The argument developed provides a way of dissolving the first problem (and defending the proposed solution against possible objections) and resolving the second problem. In doing so it provides a defensible normative basis for the political theory of transnational citizenship.

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Published date: 15 May 2017
Additional Information: Publisher Copyright: © 2013 Jo Shaw and Igor Štiks. All rights reserved. Copyright: Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
Keywords: Democracy, Membership, Migration, Transnational citizenship, Voting rights

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Local EPrints ID: 453765
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/453765
PURE UUID: 4d623b9e-da43-4fb0-ab34-b181cf74a4ec
ORCID for David Owen: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-8865-6332

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Date deposited: 24 Jan 2022 17:44
Last modified: 06 Jun 2024 01:35

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Author: David Owen ORCID iD
Editor: Jo Shaw
Editor: Igor Štiks

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