ABSTRACT
This comprehensive Handbook gives an overview of the political, social, economic and legal dimensions of citizenship in the Middle East and North Africa from the nineteenth century to the present.
The terms citizen and citizenship are mostly used by researchers in an off-hand, self-evident manner. A citizen is assumed to have standard rights and duties that everyone enjoys. However, citizenship is a complex legal, social, economic, cultural, ethical and religious concept and practice. Since the rise of the modern bureaucratic state, in each country of the Middle East and North Africa, citizenship has developed differently. In addition, rights are highly differentiated within one country, ranging from privileged, underprivileged and discriminated citizens to non-citizens. Through its dual nature as instrument of state control, as well as a source of citizen rights and entitlements, citizenship provides crucial insights into state-citizen relations and the services the state provides, as well as the way citizens respond to these actions.
This volume focuses on five themes that cover the crucial dimensions of citizenship in the region:
- Historical trajectory of citizenship since the nineteenth century until independence
- Creation of citizenship from above by the state
- Different discourses of rights and forms of contestation developed by social movements and society
- Mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion
- Politics of citizenship, nationality and migration
Covering the main dimensions of citizenship, this multidisciplinary book is a key resource for students and scholars interested in citizenship, politics, economics, history, migration and refugees in the Middle East and North Africa.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|83 pages
Emergence of modern citizenship
chapter 1|14 pages
Peace to those of faith
part 2|84 pages
Formation of citizenship from above
chapter 7|13 pages
Between claims, residence and recognition
chapter 8|14 pages
Muwatana, exclusion and the politics of belonging in modernizing monarchies
chapter 9|14 pages
Constitutions and citizenship
part 3|87 pages
Social movements and formation of citizenship from below
chapter 16|17 pages
The politics of the poor in the Middle East and North Africa
part 4|119 pages
Mechanism of inclusion and exclusion
chapter 25|14 pages
The Christians of the Middle East
chapter 26|14 pages
Citizenship and political participation in post-Qaddafi Libya
part 5|92 pages
Migration and regulation of citizenship and nationality