TY - JOUR
T1 - Equal citizens, uneven communities
T2 - Differentiated and hierarchical citizenship in Kosovo
AU - Krasniqi, Gezim
PY - 2015/1/8
Y1 - 2015/1/8
N2 - This paper looks at the case of citizenship in Kosovo and argues that the mismatch between the idea of a ‘liberal’ state and the practice of group differentiation, on the one hand, and the socio-political reality that emerged in the post-war period, on the other, has resulted in a citizenship regime that is hierarchical. It aims to demonstrate how despite the legally enshrined promise of equality, differentiated citizenship, together with a political context defined by an ethnic divide and past structural inequalities, as well as uneven external citizenship opportunities, contributed to the emergence of hierarchical citizenship, in which some groups (communities), or ‘rights-and-duty-bearing units’, are more equal than the others.
AB - This paper looks at the case of citizenship in Kosovo and argues that the mismatch between the idea of a ‘liberal’ state and the practice of group differentiation, on the one hand, and the socio-political reality that emerged in the post-war period, on the other, has resulted in a citizenship regime that is hierarchical. It aims to demonstrate how despite the legally enshrined promise of equality, differentiated citizenship, together with a political context defined by an ethnic divide and past structural inequalities, as well as uneven external citizenship opportunities, contributed to the emergence of hierarchical citizenship, in which some groups (communities), or ‘rights-and-duty-bearing units’, are more equal than the others.
U2 - 10.1080/17449057.2014.991152
DO - 10.1080/17449057.2014.991152
M3 - Article
SN - 1744-9057
VL - 14
SP - 197
EP - 217
JO - Ethnopolitics
JF - Ethnopolitics
IS - 2
ER -