Transformation of Citizenship Regimes in Serbia since 1990: The Key Elements Cover Image

Ključni elementi transformacije režima državljanstva u Srbiji od 1990. godine
Transformation of Citizenship Regimes in Serbia since 1990: The Key Elements

Author(s): Jelena Vasiljević
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: citizenship regimes; Serbia; Yugoslav wars; Kosovo

Summary/Abstract: The discussion on citizenship in Serbia, as laid out in this paper, is a proposal to look at the citizenship regimes as reflections of (changing) trends in the ways the body of citizens and nation is being conceptualized and consequently man-aged within a given political community by its policy makers. This is a perspective from which citizenship can be seen as a means of giving legal substance to the under-lying idea of congruence between state and nation. I will argue that the legacy of different attempts at defining the relation between the Serbian state and the people, coupled with the wider context of Yugoslav conflicts and post-conflict developments in the region, led to an unconsolidated citizenship regime in Serbia with varying and contested conceptions about how to achieve congruence of state, territory and nation.

  • Issue Year: 22/2011
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 63-83
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Serbian