Reinstitutionalizing the nation – status law and dual citizenship
Reinstitutionalizing the nation – status law and dual citizenship

Summary/Abstract: The status laws and policies of dual citizenship reflect nothing more than the prolongation of nationalism. As previously stated, nationalism is the one of the basic forces of modernity. The manner in which it shapes societies differ, however, one cannot find a society in Europe where nationalism, and the nation as one of its core values, is not present. Even the regimes that typically believed they could solve the national question were nationalist, or against their will, institutionalized groups on a national basis. The domestic and the international debates around kin-state politics are now seen as a surprise for many observers. The way in which societies developed in the past few centuries has shown that there is nothing novel in the essence of these things, only the frameworks in which nationalism emerges is new.

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