The Moralisation of Citizenship in Dutch Integration Discourse
In this essay two arguments are made about the Dutch integration policy discourse drawing on a distinction between formal citizenship and moral citizenship. First it is argued that citizenship is increasingly framed as moral citizenship and subsequently that this entails a shift from actual citizenship to a virtual conception of it. This virtualisation of citizenship leads to the discursive articulation of certain citizens – immigrants who are citizens in the formal sense – as quasi-subjects, at once protected and feared within the nation-state. This entails that the virtualisation of citi... Mehr ...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 2008 |
| Reihe/Periodikum: | Amsterdam Law Forum, Vol 1, Iss 1, Pp 15-26 (2008) |
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Amsterdam Law Forum
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| Schlagwörter: | migration / inclusion / exclusion / philosophy / derrida / deconstruction / immigration / asylum law / integration / politics / Law / K |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27017070 |
| Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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| Link(s) : | https://doaj.org/article/142f1ee3ea2f4922ac4876679bd051cd |
In this essay two arguments are made about the Dutch integration policy discourse drawing on a distinction between formal citizenship and moral citizenship. First it is argued that citizenship is increasingly framed as moral citizenship and subsequently that this entails a shift from actual citizenship to a virtual conception of it. This virtualisation of citizenship leads to the discursive articulation of certain citizens – immigrants who are citizens in the formal sense – as quasi-subjects, at once protected and feared within the nation-state. This entails that the virtualisation of citizenship does not concern formal inclusion in the nation-state, but rather the moral inclusion in the discursive domain of ‘society’.