Democratic citizenship in flux: cjonceptions of citizenship in the light of political and social fragmentation

Traditionally, citizenship has been defined as the legal and political link between individuals and their democratic political community. However, traditional conceptions of democratic citizenship are currently challenged by various developments like migration, the rise of populism, increasing polarization, social fragmentation, and the challenging of representative democracy as well as developments in digital communication technology. Against this background, this peer reviewed book reflects recent conceptions of citizenship by bringing together insights from different disciplines, such as political science, sociology, economics, law, and history. Puberty is a time of tumultuous transition from childhood to adulthood activated by rapid physical changes, hormonal development and explosive activity of neurons. This book explores puberty through the parent-teenager relationship, as a "normal state of crisis", lasting several years and with the teenager oscillating between childlike tendencies and their desire to become an adult. The more parents succeed in recognizing and experiencing these new challenges as an integral, ineluctable emotional transformative process, the more they can allow their children to become independent. In addition, parents who can also see this crisis as a chance for their own further development will be ultimately enriched by this painful process. They can face up to their own aging as they take leave of youth with its myriad possibilities, accepting and working through a newfound rivalry with their sexually mature children, thus experiencing a process of maturity, which in turn can set an example for their children. This book is based on rich clinical observations from international settings, unique within the field, and there is an emphasis placed by the author on the role of the body in self-awareness, identity crises and gender construction. It will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, parents and carers, as well as all those interacting with adolescents in self, family and society Contents Citizenship in flux: Introduction and a conceptual approach Exclusive citizenship as basis for chauvinistic nationalism Public perception of European Union citizenship at the local level Political contestation and domestic politics in EU financial regulation Formal citizenship in European constitutions Citizenship regimes and diaspora politics: The case of politically involved Turkish migrants in Germany Borders of Citizenship? Biopolitics and differential inclusion in local fields of labor and asylum Activist citizens beyond dichotomies: Migrant rights activism in Hamburg Who belongs to ›the people‹? The societal boundaries of national and European notions of citizenship Can nationalists be democratic citizens in the age of global migration? Boundaries of political community and their impact on liberal orientation in EU societies About the authors