ABSTRACT
Modern liberal states make great normative claims for citizenship. The vision of citizenship that is on display in naturalization programmes is a vision of citizenship as denoting equality and access to socially recognized goods including, in the case of the United Kingdom, work, health care, and social assistance. One such group of irredeemable humanity is the so-called 'home-grown' terrorist: the citizen who participates in or lends support to acts of terrorism, particularly those associated with Islamist extremism. The identity of the paedophile as a suspect citizen has served as the justification for a range of extraordinary restrictions on the sex offender's rights and ability to (re)integrate into society after punishment. In many states, some people who are not born into citizenship may become citizens through naturalization. In Europe, social welfare entitlements are an important means of assessing the content of national citizenship.
