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Description
At the beginning of the 21st century, there is a pressing need to develop new forms of citizenship to meet demands for self-determination advanced by substate nations and indigenous peoples. In Defence of Multinational Citizenship responds to this challenge by making a compelling case for a new form of multinational citizenship. Such a conception would provide equal recognition to the citizenship regimes of state and substate nations through a democratic argument for self-determination at the substate level, and a revised conception of state sovereignty that is divided and shared.
Contributor Notes
Siobhán Harty is Senior Policy Advisor in Strategic Policy, Social Development Canada, in Ottawa. Michael Murphy is Research Associate at the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations and Lecturer in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston.
Editorial Review
Harty and Murphy delineate a strong case for differentiated citizenship. Reading a book like this from within a country (India) ... the Harty-Murphy exposition has relevance, immediacy, and a touch of poignancy ... Doubling as a useful primer to, and a pertinent critique of, one of the most important socio-political and cultural debates of the age, In Defence of Multinational Citizenship is a work that will interest a range of scholars from the social sciences and the humanities.
— Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. XXXVIII, no. 2, June 2006
