Encyclopedia of citizenship studies

This Encyclopedia presents a comprehensive collection of entries addressing the normative claims and definitions of the critical concepts, principles, and approaches that make up the field of citizenship studies.

The Encyclopedia explores the empirical realities of citizenship from a diverse array of perspectives, and covers comparative, regional and global perspectives in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Its broad coverage ranges from classical ideas of citizenship to the experience of citizenship in the Anthropocene, providing contextual insight into its expansion, erosion, and extension over the past 200 years.

With its succinct overviews of critical aspects of citizenship, the Encyclopedia of Citizenship Studies will prove an invaluable resource to postgraduate students and junior researchers of sociology, political science, political philosophy, migration, political geography and geopolitics, human rights, and population studies. Its in-depth discussion of the empirical realities of citizenship will also benefit policy makers and researchers in these areas.

Key Features:

• 78 thought-provoking entries structured into six thematic parts


• Discussion of key methodologies in, and novel approaches to, citizenship research


• Exploration of differentiated forms of modern citizenship, such as intimate, gendered and multicultural citizenship


• Examination of key issues such as statelessness, naturalization and transnational or diasporic forms of citizenship


• Consideration of territorial scales of citizenship, such as urban citizenship