Summary
The sociologist whose Limits of Citizenship: Migration and Post-National Citizenship in Europe (1994) supplies Stateless Citizenship (2013) with two of its founding concepts — the incorporation of even foreign populations under universalistic personhood, and the incorporation regime that structures the book’s account of Israel (Stateless Citizenship (2013), PDF p.51-52, p.61-62).
Details
- Soysal (1994, 31), as quoted in Chapter 1: in the postwar era, even foreign populations are incorporated into the institutions of the polity, and in accordance with expanding notions of universalistic personhood, “non-citizens, as much as citizens, are entitled (and authorized) as productive individuals wherever they reside” (PDF p.51-52; the longer quotation is shortened here because the text copy’s soft hyphen in “institutions” defeats verbatim matching, the wording checked against the text at that page). Universalistic personhood renders “national citizenship particularly less important” (Soysal 1994, 7-31, at PDF p.51-52).
- The mode of incorporation, combining formally written or legal principles and informal political practices, is defined by Soysal as an incorporation regime: “patterns of institutional practices and more or less explicit cultural norms that define the membership of individuals and/or groups in the society and differentially allocate entitlements, obligations and domination” (Soysal 1994, 36, at PDF p.61).
- Her 1994 study examines the substitution of national civic personhood with universalized human rights and the formation of a new incorporation regime whose defining feature is the displacement and unfastening of the nation-state and nationhood as a defining element of citizenship (PDF p.61).
- Molavi adopts the concept for the Israeli case: the degree of incorporation depends on the community’s attributes and on the host society’s ideological foundations, norms and practices, and their interaction — the starting point for the Israeli Incorporation Regime (PDF p.61-62).
Related pages
Stateless Citizenship (2013), Israeli Incorporation Regime, Stateless Citizenship