National identity constitutes the psychological basis and important force for survival development of a country. How to shape construct national maintain unity stability multi-ethnic countries is an subject that must face. Citizenship education considered be basic path cultivate strengthen identity. The construction affects direction citizenship education, which in turn cultivation interact eac...

A growing number of social scientists are asking important questions about the dawning of a new kind of citizenship – biological citizenship – and its implications for how we understand the relationship between the state and civil society actors. The perspective of biological citizenship can be expanded to include the emergence of illness as a new political cleavage, as an identity through whic...

The following paper examines the nature and change in citizenship policies in the former 15 Soviet republics since the collapse of the USSR till 2005. The main focus of the paper is the requirements that former Soviet republics adopted into their citizenship laws as prerequisites for naturalization, and the trend in changes made to these provisions. The paper proposes a theory that combines Neo...

This contribution explores the impact of Brexit upon understandings citizenship and identity in Northern Ireland.

Citizenship as status implies the acknowledgment of individual rights as well as social ones. This very acceptance requires the consideration of all citizens as equal despite any personal difference and it represents an aim that is mostly dependent on the mass-media social function. The formal acknowledgment of the citizenship would be scarcely important if identity stereotypes and prejudice-ba...