scholarly journals The transition from national citizenship to global citizenship; The relation between Citizenship rights and bioethics

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (21) ◽  
pp. 89-110
Author(s):  
Morteza Asgharnia ◽  
Mohammad Sadegh Beheshti
Keyword(s):  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Citizenship Rights ◽  
National Citizenship

Chinese civic education being globalised

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yudan Shi ◽  
Eric King Man Chong ◽  
Baihe Li
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Multiple Identities ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The World ◽  
National Citizenship ◽  
Chinese Societies ◽  
Curriculum Guidelines ◽  
Multiple Levels

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to compare the curriculum developments of civic education in three emerging Chinese societies: China and two Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macao, which are increasingly under the impacts of globalisation in this information world. Design/methodology/approach The analytical method is used and the following are identified: active and global civic education-related learning units and key themes and main contents in official curriculum guidelines and updated textbooks related to civic education. Findings A major finding is that elements of both active and global citizenship, such as participation in the community and understanding about the world and thus forming multiple identities, can be found alongside their emphasis on enhancing national citizenship. Thus, ideas of global citizenship and multiple levels of citizenship from local, national to global start to develop in these three Chinese societies. Social implications The implications of such findings of both active and global citizenship, as well as multiple identities, found in these three Chinese societies could be huge for informing civic literature and sociological point of views, in particular, pointing to the next generations receiving a broadened and transcended notion of multiple levels of citizenship, apart from local and national citizenship. Originality/value The significance of this paper is that it argues that ideas of active citizenship in terms of community participation and global citizenship have been found in China, Hong Kong and Macao civic education curriculum and textbooks because of the expectations placed on students to compete in a globalized world, though national citizenship and patriotic concerns have been primary concerns. Globalisation makes the world society by impacting on these three Chinese societies for active and global citizenship, though they still retain their particular curricular focusses.

Citizenship

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. Spiro
Keyword(s):  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Mutual Support ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Citizenship Status ◽  
Legal Scholar ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
New Era ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
National Citizenship

Almost everyone has citizenship, and yet it has emerged as one of the most hotly contested issues of contemporary politics. Even as cosmopolitan elites and human rights advocates aspire to some notion of “global citizenship,” populism and nativism have re-ignited the importance of national citizenship. Either way, the meaning of citizenship is changing. Citizenship once represented solidarities among individuals committed to mutual support and sacrifice, but as it is decoupled from national community on the ground, it is becoming more a badge of privilege than a marker of equality. Intense policy disagreement about whether to extend birthright citizenship to the children of unauthorized immigrants opens a window on other citizenship-related developments. At the same time that citizenship is harder to get for some, for others it is literally available for purchase. The exploding incidence of dual citizenship, meanwhile, is moving us away from a world in which states jealously demanded exclusive affiliation, to one in which individuals can construct and maintain formal multinational identities. Citizenship does not mean the same thing to everyone, nor have states approached citizenship policy in lockstep. Rather, global trends point to a new era for citizenship as an institution. In Citizenship: What Everyone Needs to Know®, legal scholar Peter J. Spiro explains citizenship through accessible terms and questions: what citizenship means, how you obtain citizenship (and how you lose it), how it has changed through history, what benefits citizenship gets you, and what obligations it extracts from you--all in comparative perspective. He addresses how citizenship status affects a person's rights and obligations, what it means to be stateless, the refugee crisis, and whether or not countries should terminate the citizenship of terrorists. He also examines alternatives to national citizenship, including sub-national and global citizenship, and the phenomenon of investor citizenship. Spiro concludes by considering whether nationalist and extremist politics will lead to a general retreat from state-based forms of association and the end of citizenship as we know it. Ultimately, Spiro provides historical and critical perspective to a concept that is a part of our everyday discourse, providing a crucial contribution to our understanding of a central organizing principle of the modern world.

scholarly journals Advancing global citizenship education in Japan and China: An exploration and comparison of the national curricula

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sicong Chen
Keyword(s):  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
National Curriculum ◽  
Education Systems ◽  
Global Citizen ◽  
Global Citizenship Education ◽  
Policy Level ◽  
National Citizenship ◽  
Curriculum Guidelines ◽  
Japan And China

The literature widely reports that national citizenship remains the focus of citizenship education in Japan and China, despite the emerged global elements in both cases. Yet the literature stops short of exploring how to advance the agenda of global citizenship in the dominant national citizenship education under the centralized education systems in Japan and China. With a list of global citizen attributes derived from a particular conception of citizenship, this article identifies and compares the pedagogical capacity and potential for global citizenship education in relevant Japanese and Chinese national curriculum guidelines, many of which have been recently revised. It is found that many attributes are indeed supported in the Japanese and Chinese guidelines, which, furthermore, leave pedagogical potential for the development of unsupported others. The findings at the policy level bear practical and research implications for global citizenship education in Japanese and Chinese schools.

scholarly journals Editorial Dynamics of European and national citizenship: inclusive or exclusive?

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Direct Effect ◽  
National Level ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Citizenship Rights ◽  
Member States ◽  
Dynamic Development ◽  
Court Of Justice ◽  
European Citizenship ◽  
National Citizenship

Citizenship is an eminent example of the dynamic development of European constitutional concepts. From a status to which the member states wished not to attach any significant directly effective new rights, the Court of Justice has declared European citizenship to be ‘the fundamental status of nationals of the member states’ (Grzelczyck) and has given one of the prime citizenship rights, the freedom to reside in member states, direct effect. This development and in particular the interplay between constitutional developments at European Union and at national level regarding citizenship deserve reflection. We focus on the extent to which citizenship constitutes an exclusive bond with a political community which distinguishes those who are its members from those who are not.

scholarly journals The Emerging Regional Citizenship Regime of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations

2020 ◽  
pp. 186810342097241
Author(s):  
Amalie Ravn Weinrich
Keyword(s):  
Current Literature ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Citizenship Rights ◽  
National Citizenship ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Citizenship Regimes ◽  
Citizenship Regime ◽  
Policies And Practices

This article analyses the citizenship regime of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Current literature on ASEAN regionalism has refrained from examining the link between community-building and citizenship building, and the prevailing assumption remains that ASEAN lacks a citizenship regime. This assumption derives from the premises that a regional citizenship regime is the result of the reconfiguration of national citizenship rights and that it is a legally defined status. By deploying the concept of citizenship regime based on the dimensions of rights, access, belonging, and responsibility mix, the article argues that there is an emerging citizenship regime in ASEAN built on citizenship-related policies. This citizenship regime is informal, developing, and atypical – and the unintentional outcome of ASEAN trying to fulfil its agenda on community-building. The analysis contributes to citizenship studies and ASEAN regionalism by offering a nuanced understanding of how citizenship regimes are built through citizenship-related policies and practices.

"What Do You Expect? That We All Dance and Be Happy?" Second-Generation Immigrants and Germany's 1999 Citizenship Reform

2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-85
Author(s):  
Sandra Bucerius
Keyword(s):  
Opposite Effect ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Citizenship Rights ◽  
Second Generation Immigrants ◽  
Generation Immigrant ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
National Citizenship ◽  
Citizenship Norms

Based on a five-year ethnography, this article looks at Germany's citizenship reform of 1999 from the perspective of a population that is often at the center of attention: second generation immigrant drug dealers. While the reform had the potential to make a significant difference for this group, with respect to both their legal status in the country and perception of Germany, the findings of this article show that the reform did not have such an impact. On the contrary, the reform seems to have had the opposite effect, alienating the young men even more from Germany by keeping citizenship out of reach for them. While some have argued that in the light of supranational citizenship norms and the discourse of citizenship rights as human rights, national citizenship becomes increasingly unimportant as new forms of post-national citizenship gradually emerge, this does not seem to hold true for the young men of this study.

Global Citizenship

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Reysen
Keyword(s):  
Global Citizenship
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