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Citizenship under siege in the brave new Europe

Institute of Social Studies, hintjens{at}iss.nl

This commentary piece reflects on the range of contributions to this Special Issue, considering the ways in which the European context fails to offer more inclusionary notions of citizenship in the current era. A long-term decline in state legitimacy in Europe and in the UK cannot be offset by the intensified policing of insecurity that is known as the War on Terror. The Global Social Justice movement is considered as an alternative framework for what security might mean in the absence of state violence. The importance of diasporic identities to such movements comes across in the research project that underpins this Special Issue. States in Europe and the British state, which is focused on here, are experiencing what can be called a 'beseiged legitimacy'. The relative disbelief in official accounts of events by many citizens, such as those interviewed by researchers involved in this Special Issue, combines with a global economy that increasingly resembles a casino.

Key Words: citizenship • diasporic • Europe • exclusion • identity • legitimacy • Muslims

European Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 10, No. 3, 409-414 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1367549407079715


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