Denationalisation and discrimination
In this piece I consider the relationship between denationalization and discrimination. Denationalization, the involuntary removal of citizenship or nationality by the state, has a dark history, reflected in the Nazi use of the power. Yet before 1945, many liberal democratic states also practiced ci...
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| description | In this piece I consider the relationship between denationalization and discrimination. Denationalization, the involuntary removal of citizenship or nationality by the state, has a dark history, reflected in the Nazi use of the power. Yet before 1945, many liberal democratic states also practiced citizenship-stripping, in ways informed by considerations of gender, race, national origin, and mode of citizenship acquisition. As denationalization is currently making a revival across a range of liberal democratic states as a way of responding to “home grown” terrorists, a question emerges: Do recent denationalization provisions manage to break free of this discriminatory past? Here, I use a discussion of denationalization’s history and examination of the UK as the basis for a critical assessment of the power’s contemporary incarnations. I find that contemporary denationalization power is still a powerful tracer of groups within the polity who, despite holding formal citizenship, are viewed as foreign. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:8bb57c7b-87a9-458b-8d50-74cdda018dae2022-03-26T22:39:51ZDenationalisation and discriminationJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:8bb57c7b-87a9-458b-8d50-74cdda018daeSymplectic Elements at OxfordRoutledge2019Gibney, MIn this piece I consider the relationship between denationalization and discrimination. Denationalization, the involuntary removal of citizenship or nationality by the state, has a dark history, reflected in the Nazi use of the power. Yet before 1945, many liberal democratic states also practiced citizenship-stripping, in ways informed by considerations of gender, race, national origin, and mode of citizenship acquisition. As denationalization is currently making a revival across a range of liberal democratic states as a way of responding to “home grown” terrorists, a question emerges: Do recent denationalization provisions manage to break free of this discriminatory past? Here, I use a discussion of denationalization’s history and examination of the UK as the basis for a critical assessment of the power’s contemporary incarnations. I find that contemporary denationalization power is still a powerful tracer of groups within the polity who, despite holding formal citizenship, are viewed as foreign. |
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