The Moralisation of Citizenship in Dutch Integration Discourse

In this essay two arguments are made about the Dutch integration policy discourse drawing on a distinction between formal citizenship and moral citizenship. First it is argued that citizenship is increasingly framed as moral citizenship and subsequently that this entails a shift from actual citizens...

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Autor principal: Willem Schinkel
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:142f1ee3ea2f4922ac4876679bd051cd2021-12-02T01:19:00ZThe Moralisation of Citizenship in Dutch Integration Discourse1876-8156https://doaj.org/article/142f1ee3ea2f4922ac4876679bd051cd2008-09-01T00:00:00Zhttp://ojs.ubvu.vu.nl/alf/article/view/56https://doaj.org/toc/1876-8156In this essay two arguments are made about the Dutch integration policy discourse drawing on a distinction between formal citizenship and moral citizenship. First it is argued that citizenship is increasingly framed as moral citizenship and subsequently that this entails a shift from actual citizenship to a virtual conception of it. This virtualisation of citizenship leads to the discursive articulation of certain citizens – immigrants who are citizens in the formal sense – as quasi-subjects, at once protected and feared within the nation-state. This entails that the virtualisation of citizenship does not concern formal inclusion in the nation-state, but rather the moral inclusion in the discursive domain of ‘society’.Willem SchinkelAmsterdam Law Forumarticlemigration, inclusion, exclusion, philosophy, derrida, deconstruction, immigration, asylum law, integration, politicsLawKENAmsterdam Law Forum, Vol 1, Iss 1, Pp 15-26 (2008)
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Willem Schinkel
The Moralisation of Citizenship in Dutch Integration Discourse
description In this essay two arguments are made about the Dutch integration policy discourse drawing on a distinction between formal citizenship and moral citizenship. First it is argued that citizenship is increasingly framed as moral citizenship and subsequently that this entails a shift from actual citizenship to a virtual conception of it. This virtualisation of citizenship leads to the discursive articulation of certain citizens – immigrants who are citizens in the formal sense – as quasi-subjects, at once protected and feared within the nation-state. This entails that the virtualisation of citizenship does not concern formal inclusion in the nation-state, but rather the moral inclusion in the discursive domain of ‘society’.
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