Parliamentary Affairs Advance Access originally published online on August 11, 2009
Parliamentary Affairs 2009 62(4):686-690; doi:10.1093/pa/gsp017
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The Future Governance of Citizenship
University of Nottingham
Correspondence: ldxsd1@nottingham.ac.uk
DORA KOSTAKOPOULOU, The Future Governance of Citizenship, Cambridge University Press (UK), 2008, ISBN: 9780521701785.
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In the recently published book ‘The Future Governance of Citizenship’, the author Dora Kostakopoulou firmly situates her discussion in a time marked by European integration, globalisation, and large-scale migration but also by national security policy, border controls, citizenship tests and post-9/11 rhetoric. And if there would still be any doubt about the timeliness of her book, this would be dissolved in the light of the recent trade union strike under the slogan ‘British jobs for British people’ spurred by the recession and ensuing loss of jobs and the subsequent response of the Business minister defending the employment of foreign EU workers. Citizenship is, as it always has been, a politically contentious issue.
Discussing citizenship in the twenty-first century, however, The Future