Debating Transformations of National Citizenship.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Editor -- Contributors -- Part I: Should Citizenship Be for Sale? -- Summary: Global, European and National Questions About the Price of Citizenship -- (1) Global questions -- (2) European questions -- (3) National questions -- Dangerous Liaisons: Money and Citizenship -- Cash-for-Passports and the End of Citizenship -- Citizenship for Those who Invest into the Future of the State is Not Wrong, the Price Is the Problem -- The Price of Selling Citizenship -- Global Mobility Corridors for the Ultra-Rich. The Neoliberal Transformation of Citizenship -- The Maltese Falcon, or: my Porsche for a Passport! -- What Is Wrong with Selling Citizenship? It Corrupts Democracy! -- What Money Can't Buy: Face-to-Face Cooperation and Local Democratic Life -- If You Do not Like Selling Passports, Give Them for Free to Those Who Deserve Them -- Citizenship for Real: Its Hypocrisy, Its Randomness, Its Price -- I. -- II. -- III. -- IV. -- V. -- Trading Citizenship, Human Capital and the European Union -- Citizenship for Sale: Could and Should the  EU Intervene? -- Linking Citizenship to Income Undermines European Values. We Need Shared Criteria and Guidelines for Access to EU Citizenship -- Coda -- Part II: Bloodlines and Belonging -- Bloodlines and Belonging: Time to Abandon Ius Sanguinis? -- Tainted -- Inadequate -- Unnecessary -- Ius Filiationis: A defence of Citizenship by Descent -- Not the only one tainted -- Why not ius filiationis? -- Don't abandon the children! -- Delayed citizenship for all? -- Citizenship across generations -- Tainted Law? Why History Cannot provide the Justification for Abandoning Ius Sanguinis -- Tainted by history? -- Not all types of 'descent' are the same -- Co-ethnic citizenship is a different story -- Conclusion -- Family Matters: Modernise, Don't Abandon, Ius Sanguinis.

In a mobile world children need their parents' citizenship -- ART requires fixing family and citizenship law -- Abolishing Ius Sanguinis Citizenship: A Proposal Too Restrained and Too Radical -- The complex history of ius sanguinis citizenship -- A proposal too restrained and too radical -- How to modernise? -- Citizenship Without Magic -- The Janus-Face of Ius Sanguinis: Protecting Migrant Children and Expanding Ethnic Nations -- The Prior Question: What Do We Need State Citizenship for? -- No More Blood -- Law by Blood or Blood by Law? -- The main purposes of nationality -- Non-solidarity of states -- Limiting the Transmission of Family Advantage: Ius Sanguinis with an  Expiration Date -- Protecting families but not privilege -- Provisional ius sanguinis -- Retain Ius Sanguinis, but Don't Take it Literally! -- History is not an argument -- Unity of the family -- Ius filiationis benefits -- Human rights protection at this stage -- Other ways to protect parent-child relationship -- A need for international guidelines on legal recognition of parenthood -- Distributing Some, but Not All, Rights of  Citizenship According to Ius Sanguinis -- The problem of making citizenship dependent on family ties -- Limiting the scope of ius sanguinis -- Learning from Naturalisation Debates: The Right to an Appropriate Citizenship at Birth -- Don't Put the Baby in the Dirty Bathwater! A Rejoinder -- How ethnic is ius sanguinis and why does it matter? -- Why bother fixing ius sanguinis? -- Preventing statelessness -- Protecting family life -- Expressing social identity -- Opportunities for intergenerational membership -- Part III: The Return of Banishment -- The Return of Banishment: Do the New Denationalisation Policies Weaken Citizenship? -- Terrorist Expatriation: All Show, No Bite, No Future.

Should Those Who Attack the Nation Have an Absolute Right to Remain Its Citizens? -- Terrorists Repudiate Their Own Citizenship -- It's Not About Their Citizenship, it's About Ours -- You Can't Lose What You Haven't Got: Citizenship Acquisition and Loss in Africa -- The legal provisions -- The practice -- Revocation of Citizenship of Terrorists: A Matter of Political Expediency -- Whose Bad Guys Are Terrorists? -- Human Rights for All Is Better than Citizenship Rights for Some -- Denationalisation, Assassination, Territory: Some (U.S.-Prompted) Reflections -- Beware States Piercing Holes into Citizenship -- Disowning Citizens -- Our Epoch's Little Banishments -- Deprivation of Citizenship: Is There an Issue of EU Law? -- On Producing the Alien Within: A Reply -- Part IV: Cloud Communities -- Cloud Communities: The Dawn of Global Citizenship? -- The idea of global citizenship -- Status: international legal persona -- Digital identity: blockchain technology -- Political participation: 'Cloud Communities' -- The future of citizenship: dynamic and multilayered? -- Citizenship in Cloud Cuckoo Land? -- The progressive potential: providing global legal status and enabling global civil society -- The threat to democracy: should we be ruled by voluntary associations? -- Citizenship in the Era of Blockchain-Based Virtual Nations -- Multiple shades of activism -- Beyond the blockchain -- Blockchain-based virtual nations -- Competing sovereignties -- New opportunities for experimentation -- Global Citizenship for the Stay-at-Homes -- A network model of citizenship -- More room for consensual citizenship -- A citizen's stake beyond national borders -- Global citizenship for the stay-at-homes -- A World Without Law -- A World Without Politics -- Virtual Politics, Real Guns: On Cloud Community, Violence, and Human Rights -- A World Wide Web of Citizenship.

The false dichotomies of political community -- Corroded Leviathan -- Citizenship Forecast: Partly Cloudy with Chances of Algorithms -- The Separation of Territory and State: a Digital French Revolution? -- Assumption 1: Cloud states have no territory -- Assumption 2: Cloud states cannot exert violence -- Assumption 3: Cloud state membership is based on choice -- A Brave New Dawn? Digital Cakes, Cloudy Governance and Citizenship �a la Carte -- They want citizenship? Let them have digital identities instead! -- Governance by blockchain: digital hierarchies or direct democracy? -- Citizenship as a business model? -- Old Divides, New Devices: Global Citizenship for Only Half of the World -- Escapist Technology in the Service of Neo-Feudalism -- Cloud Communities and the Materiality of the Digital -- Three problems with Orgad's argument -- Self-governance in practice: A cautionary tale -- Why not (yet?): On new divides and bad players -- Cloud Agoras: When Blockchain Technology Meets Arendt's Virtual Public Spaces -- Global Cryptodemocracy Is Possible and Desirable -- The Future of Citizenship: Global and Digital - A Rejoinder -- Cloud computing -- Political community -- Digital coercion -- Functional sovereignty -- Coda.

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