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Is Residence Special? Democracy in the Age of Migration and Human Mobility

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Each year millions of people enter a foreign country as a temporary worker, asylum seeker, international student or unauthorised migrant in search for safety or new opportunities. As the number of people ‘on the move’ is growing, we need to reconsider prevailing assumptions about the democratic people as a collective at once subject to rule and entitled to participate in ruling.1 While the number of people subject to the laws of foreign nations grows larger, the number of people relegated to the status of mere subjects expands. These subjects are forced to pay taxes, forced to comply with a variety of laws and regulations, and are fined or imprisoned whenever they fail to abide to existing legal rules. If democracy entails that the people subject to rule should also have the right to participate in ruling, it is time to ask whether democracies as they are and democracy as it should be hold pace with current trends of transnational mobility?

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  1. Department of Political Science, Stockholm University, Sweden

    Ludvig Beckman (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden

    Eva Erman (Associate Professor) (Associate Professor)

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Beckman, L. (2012). Is Residence Special? Democracy in the Age of Migration and Human Mobility. In: Beckman, L., Erman, E. (eds) Territories of Citizenship. Palgrave Studies in Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137031709_2

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