Citizenship. From equality and dignity to humiliation and separation

Koshenov’s book is a critical introduction to a topic that is most often perceived uncritically. In our world, citizenship is glorified as an important ideal. This is a part of a narrative that appeals to democratic self -government, dignity and national unity. In fact, as Dimitri Kochenov explains, the history of citizenship is the history of herd feelings, hypocrisy and subordination, which flatters citizens and humiliates non -citizens. In this book, Koshenov describes the situation with citizenship these days.

The history of citizenship is not about freedom, dignity and national unity, but about herd feelings, hypocrisy and subordination. Book of the Doctor of Law and
Professors of the University of Groningen Dimitry Kochenov describes what is citizenship, which implies how it was formed and how it changed
Its role in the world. Koshenov analyzes four key elements of this concept: the status of a citizen, as well as how and why this status is provided, which
He fulfills the function and who does not receive it and why, the rights of a citizen, including the right to live and work in the state, the obligations of a citizen and what does it mean to be
“respectable citizen”, and, finally, the political aspects of citizenship related to its provision and use.
Citizenship promises to realize the fundamental ideals of dignity, equality and freedom - but only for strictly limited and accidentally certain groups
people. Those who accidentally find themselves beyond these borders are strangers. All the solemn ideals that citizenship are designed to protect are evaporated for these people.
Citizenship, warns the kochenes, too often turns out to be a legal tool, justifying violence, humiliation and discrimination - one of
The latest feudal remnants in the modern world, which denies on a global scale all those ideals of justice on which any modern