Identity, Belonging and Diversity. Dynamic Aspects of Citizenship in a Globalization Era
Identity, Belonging and Diversity. Dynamic Aspects of Citizenship in a Globalization Era

Summary/Abstract: More recently people started having a quite controversial dialogue. To be more exact the conversation they carry is about multiple citizenships, the diminishing sovereignty of the nation states, the disappearance of the nation state, the dissipation of national identity. Moreover, these fluid and complex societies are confronted with problems emergent from this high stake game: one cannot pass by the fact that democracies depend directly on their citizens. In the context of globalization and of an increase in the rates of migrations in the same pace as the one we witness today, we can estimate that if the nation states will not find the means to keep, educate and form their citizens, and if the states will not develop their abilities to adequately brand and market their national identities to attract new potential citizens, then they may as well face the risk of losing the competitive game of attracting high quality members. Migration gives a second stronger impulse to the rhythm in which the "solidarity" networks form. These networks are being created by minorities of immigrants through the maintenance of connections to their home culture or country and even to immigrants in different countries than that of their own.

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