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"Although we live in a period of unprecedented globalization and migration, citizenship matters more than ever. Here, Elizabeth F. Cohen and Cyril Ghosh examine multiple facets of the concept, including classic and contemporary theories, historical development, and lived experience. This book is essential reading for students and scholars alike"--

Traditional statist approaches to citizenship emphasize the rights & duties of individuals as members of bounded sovereign communities, & deny that citizenship has any meaning when detached from the sovereign nation-state. Theorists in the Kantian tradition have used the idea of world citizenship to refer to obligations to care about the future of the whole human race. Here, this approach is extended by arguing for a dialogic conception of cosmopolitan citizenship. What distinguishes this approach is the claim that separate states & other actors have an obligation to give institutional expression to the idea of a universal communication community that reflects the heterogeneous character of international society. 59 References. Adapted from the source document.

The emergence of an expanded notion of citizenship -- cultural citizenship -- is examined. The development of citizenship rights is cumulative & uneven. While extension of social/welfare rights has recently been stymied, new cultural citizenship rights, including the rights to symbolic presence, dignifying representation, propagation of identity, & maintenance of lifestyles, have emerged. Global trends responsible for the emergence of interest in cultural citizenship in the contemporary era are highlighted: (1) weakening of the state; (2) the welfare system crisis; (3) the waning of classes; (4) proliferation of communication media; & (5) formation of new social & cultural movements. The application of these trends to the emergence of cultural rights & their claimants in Australia is discussed. Adapted from the source document.