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Concept Of Citizenship

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DEFINING CITIZENSHIP
The concept of citizenship have become increasingly salient and complex. Traditionally, citizenship comprises of full membership of the polity that is the nation-state. It is integrally linked to a territorial state and to the people who belong to the state. The analytical and historical differences between the nationality and citizenship arise in the modern overlay of the membership in the nation (nationality) and the active membership in the political state (citizenship). The word nation no longer denotes the sovereign people but the collection of people recognizing the authority of the same state. It is the political structure created by the state and the country under its control. When a person talks about the national …show more content…

It means the legalization of rights, benefits and obligations of the citizens in a constitution. The institutionalization of citizenship makes the difference between the nationals and the non-nationals. It also underscores distinction between effective, full citizens and those without full memberships. Marshall’s notion of citizenship as a status denoting full membership in a community and to which are attached rights and duties outlines three distinct elements of citizenship: Civil, Political and Social. Recently, some citizens have also included cultural rights as the elements to the citizenship. These developments were driven by the state, the ruling economic and the political class and other socio-economic classes. They were a function of national conflict and were reflected in the state-citizenship nexus. They feature the deployment of nation-state, shared nationhood and bounded …show more content…

The concept and practice of citizenship have been struggling to encompass ideas, attitudes and activities for which it was not originally designed. The context in which the rights of citizenship are claimed and enjoyed and its duties discharged would be unrecognizable to Aristotle today.
According to Heater, citizenship has expended in three directions: demographical, legal-constitutional and geographical. Originally in the Greek city states, citizenship was formulated as an elite status whereas the expectations today is that it should be universally conferred.
The extension of civil/political citizenship to social citizenship and minority rights has certain contradictions within the nation-state. During the early liberal evolution of citizenship also, the same simplicity of legal status applied.
Citizenship is the fundamental institutions that connect the individual bearer of rights to the protective agencies of the state. The civic realms of the state provides the main channels through which individuals can participate politically and share in governance.

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