Track II - Citizenship and the Nation State
Expert
Dr. Katja Mäkinen
Dr. Katja Mäkinen works as a researcher at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. Her past research has focused on citizens’ participation in EU projects and the construction of citizenship through EU policies and cultural programmes. Currently, she investigates the notion of “cultural heritage” in the EU’s identity and integration politics. Dr. Mäkinen is a member of the steering committee of the ECPR Citizenship standing group and has been a visiting researcher at the University of Auckland and at the European University Institute in Florence.
Dr. Volker Balli
Dr. Volker Balli is the academic director of the Studium Individuale at the University of Lüneburg and has previously held the post of lecturer and coordinator for the major Governance at UCF. He studied at LSE, Sciences Po Paris and the College of Europe in Bruges before completing his PhD at the European University Institute and working as a researcher at the University of Trento. Dr. Balli is an expert on the EU and has especially researched the nature and self-understanding of the European polity.
Organizers
Raphaël Morsomme
Inga Sagolla
As an inherent part of broader processes of globalization, the current ‘age of migration’ has made salient the paradox between nation and state. The growing international mobility of people and their multiple identities increasingly questions the concept of citizenship, which, since the dawn of modernity, has been based on singular and individual membership and belonging in a nation-state. Scholars from various disciplines have seen possibilities for transnational, labor, cosmopolitan, or flexible forms of citizenship.
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This track will explore key questions such as:
- How has citizenship developed and how has it been theorized in historical perspective?
- How does migration challenge the citizenship concept of the nation-state?
- Are we moving towards a post-national belonging? What are its implications for migrants?
- What form should the “global order of citizenship” in the 21st century take?
- And what role does the nation-state play in this?