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Citizenship designates membership in a political community on equal terms with any other member of the same community. The Greeks and the Romans have bequeathed us different models of citizenship, which were to an extent combined during the French Revolution. According to the standard contemporary conception, a citizen is associated either through domicile or birth with a sovereign state and is a bearer of civil, political, and social rights. This view, however, has been recently criticized as inadequate on the grounds that it is orientalist and it does not take into account immigrants, gendered differences, the multicultural structure of most societies, and the virtues and attitudes necessary to be a good citizen. Moreover, scholars have started debating the possibilities of citizenship beyond borders. It is argued that a particular version of this type of citizenship proposed by Nussbaum, if properly cultivated and disseminated, has the potential to ground procedures leading to international agreements in the field of bioethics on a more solid and representative basis marked by genuine cross-cultural understanding and mutual respect.
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Peonidis, F. (2014). Citizenship. In: ten Have, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05544-2_81-1
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