Gendering citizenship in Western Europe: New challenges for citizenship research in a cross-national context
Ruth Lister
Abstract
This is a collectively written, inter-disciplinary, thematic cross-national study that combines conceptual, theoretical, empirical, and policy material so as to explore a key concept in contemporary European political, policy, and academic debates. The first part of the book clarifies the various ways in which the concept of citizenship has developed historically and is understood today in a range of Western European welfare states. It elaborates on the contemporary framing of debates and struggles around citizenship. This provides a framework for three policy studies, looking at: migration an ... More
This is a collectively written, inter-disciplinary, thematic cross-national study that combines conceptual, theoretical, empirical, and policy material so as to explore a key concept in contemporary European political, policy, and academic debates. The first part of the book clarifies the various ways in which the concept of citizenship has developed historically and is understood today in a range of Western European welfare states. It elaborates on the contemporary framing of debates and struggles around citizenship. This provides a framework for three policy studies, looking at: migration and multiculturalism; the care of young children; and home-based childcare and transnational dynamics. The book is unusual in weaving together the topics of migration and childcare, and in studying these issues together within a gendered citizenship framework. It also demonstrates the value of a multi-level conceptualisation of citizenship, stretching from the domestic sphere through the national and European levels to the global.
Keywords:
citizenship,
welfare states,
migration,
multiculturalism,
young children,
childcare,
transnational dynamics
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2007 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781861346940 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: March 2012 |
DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781861346940.001.0001 |
