Volume 76 (2019), Edition 1-2

Citizenship constitutes a mechanism of social closure, securing opening toward the members and closing against aliens. Over the past decades, political discourses, practices and legislation have not only reflected changing understandings of national...

The article focuses on dual citizenship and voting rights, not as the rights of an individual, but from the perspective of state. Therefore, citizenship is concentrated into a power-political resource inside and between states, as a means of gaining...

In the USSR, the dual citizenship was expressly prohibited by the Soviet law. After Perestroika, a new stage of Russian statehood began: on 12 December 1993, the Constitution of the modern Russian Federation was adopted, which granted Russian...

Background: In Taiwan, there are 16 recognized minorities speaking Formosan languages; the Tsou in the Alishan mountaneous region are a small distinct group of 4000 people; their language is endangered. Material and method: This is a report on...