13/05/2016: MACIMIDE Workshop on Citizenship and Diaspora Policies in Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe

MACIMIDE Workshop

Citizenship and Diaspora Policies in Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe

With the support of the Maastricht Centre for Citizenship Migration and Development (MACIMIDE) and Limburg University Fund – SWOL

Organisers: Costica Dumbrava and Christin Hess

The workshop explores the development of citizenship regimes in post-communist CEE by providing insights into key national and regional issues, such as dual citizenship, diaspora politics and ethnic conflict. Over the past quarter of a century, all the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have changed or amended their citizenship laws. Some of these changes responded to the need to modernise citizenship laws in line with rediscovered liberal democratic principles. Others were triggered by dramatic developments in the region, such as transformations of statehood, border changes, wars and population movements (e.g. internal displacement, refugee flows, ethnic immigration, and economic emigration). The new citizenship laws divided populations that once belonged to the same state, leading to the proliferation of both multiple citizenship and statelessness. While certain groups of residents (immigrants, ethnic minorities) were excluded from citizenship, other people were recognised as citizens despite the fact that they lived outside borders (ethnic diasporas, emigrants)…

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