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Making Citizens: On the Genealogy of Citizenship Ceremonies

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Constituting Communities

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How are loyal citizens made? Politicians have been asking this question since the emergence of statehood, and it appears that citizenship ceremonies are a solution that many older nation-states are resorting to when facing the multicultural challenge at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Countries such as Australia and Canada continue to practise older traditions, whereas other countries have newly invented traditions celebrating naturalization and citizenship. In the following, Britain, Sweden and Denmark serve as examples of the latter.

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  1. University of Aarhus, Denmark

    Per Mouritsen (Associate Professor of Political Science) & Knud Erik Jørgensen (Professor of European Integration) (Associate Professor of Political Science) &  (Professor of European Integration)

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Damsholt, T. (2008). Making Citizens: On the Genealogy of Citizenship Ceremonies. In: Mouritsen, P., Jørgensen, K.E. (eds) Constituting Communities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230582088_3

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