ABSTRACT
The variety of contexts in which citizenship revocation is being discussed and applied confronts us with a complex map. Drawing on contributions at the crossroads between history, law, political science and sociology, this volume offers an interdisciplinary and comparative examination of this political instrument, revealing hidden rationales and consequences at the material and symbolic levels. In this introduction, we argue that the contributions to the volume expand the scope of the existing literature in terms of the social actors that are investigated, as well as the rationales for citizenship revocation that are investigated. We also introduce three levels of analysis according to which authors have explored revocation: conditionality, consequentiality and bordering processes. We then outline the contributions of the articles reassembled here at these three levels.
