Organizer 1
Hakan G. Sicakkan
Researcher
IMER N/B and Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen
"Christiesgt. 15 N-5007 Bergen, Norway"

Tel: 32office)/+4790149365 (cell)
Fax: +4755589712
Email:Hakan.Sicakkan@isp.uib.no


Organizer 2
Karl-Henrik Svensson
Researcher
IMER N/B, University of Bergen


Tel:
Fax:
Email:Karl.Svensson@sosantr.uib.no


Organizer 3
Reidar Grønhaug
Professor
Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen


Tel:
Fax:
Email:Reidar.Groenhaug@sosantr.uib.no



Workshop description:
This session is the third one of three workshop sessions dealing with the alignments and misalignments between belongings and citizenships. The intending participants are recommended to participate all the three sessions which are parts of this workshop. This third session focuses on globalized belongings and new ways of exercising citizenship rights in European glocal spaces. Potential contestations are already discernible for defining the European and national citizenships in a context of incongruity between the notion of European Citizenship and belongings in glocal spaces. Concerning policy improvements in issues related to citizenship, these changes are anticipated to lead in the future to new contestation forms between Member States on the one hand, and between states, transnational organizations, and groups with globalized belongings in glocal spaces on the other hand. With a focus on the manifest and potential tensions on citizenship and belonging, we will investigate which new ways of rights-exercise exist in European glocal spaces, whether these are good and transferable practices, what citizenship and rights regimes and policies, and which strategies of improvement, may be feasible in the future for detecting and transferring good practices of citizenship in European glocal spaces. The activities in the workshop should result in defining areas of contestation and possible conflicts in the processes of attempting to develop inclusive democratic practices in present and future EU-states, especially with regard to population segments representing historical native minorities, second/third country nationals, extra-European citizens, and globalized belongings, all interacting with each other in European glocal spaces.


Goals of the workshop:
With this proposal, the workshop organizers aim to bring together experience and research-based perspectives for comprehensively addressing the citizenship aspect of the democratic deficit problem in the European Union. The specific focus is on the gradually altering meanings and practices of citizenship and belonging within the context of the European Union, and the significance of these two phenomena pertaining to the democratic deficit problem. The sub-aims are (1) defining areas of contestation and conflict and (2) identifying feasible and transferable practices / strategies of eliminating misalignments.




Policy relevance and topic: The workshop aims to organize its results with cross-country and cross-regional comparative frameworks so that they can serve as a basis both for policy development and also to point to and to elucidate the significant research challenges posed by changing notions of citizenship in a dynamic EU context. These concerns attach themselves immediately to ‘Theme 3: Citizenship, Governance and the Dynamics of European Integration and Enlargement.’ The workshop has relevance for the construction of citizenship as well as engaging issues related to enlargement. In its overall perspective, it clearly engages in issues of immediate relevance for European integration.


How international comparisons are included: The workshop will focus on Member States as well as associated and waiting list countries. The invited participants will focus on the state of affairs in the European Union in general, and also in specific countries such as Austria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Norway, Spain, and Turkey. These countries represent different historical-national citizenship models, and all are under the influence of the European Union policies, either as Member States or as associated and waiting list countries. They also represent different and peculiar historical patterns of alignments and misalignments between citizenships and belongings.


Reference to concerns with policy-making and best practice: The key words pertaining to policy concerns are: participation, rights regimes, politics of belonging, EU-enlargement, EU-integration, EU-citizenship, Interreg programs, strategies of improvement (subsidiarity, functional equivalence, differentiated qualification).




Presenters / participants /other information
Detailed programme and presenters:
14:30-15:00 EU, globalization, and the policy-relevance of GLOCALMIG by Lithman / Sicakkan / Punzenberger

15:00-15:15 Austria, EU-citizenship, and the relevance of GLOCALMIG by Prof. Ranier Bauböck

15:15-15:30 Danish belonging discourse and the relevance of GLOCALMIG by Prof. Ulf Hedetoft

15:30-15:45 Break

15:45-16:00 Finland and the relevance of GLOCALMIG by Prof. Tom Sandlund

16:00-16:15 Hungary, ethnic minorities, and the relevance of GLOCALMIG by Prof. Andras Bozoki

16:15-16:30 Norway, immigrant participation, and the relevance of GLOCALMIG by Researcher Jørgen Melve

16:30-16:45 Break

16:45-18:00 Responses, comments, discussion

Rainer Bauböck
Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna, Austria
Rainer.Baubock@oeaw.ac.at

Andras Bozoki
Department of Sociology, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Bozokia@ceu.hu

Ulf Hedetoft
Danish Academy for Migration Studies, Denmark
hedetoft@humsamf.auc.dk

Barbara Herzog-Punzenberger
IMER Norway / Bergen, University of Bergen, Norway
Barbara.Herzog-Punzenberger@icmpd.org

Yngve Lithman
IMER Norway / Bergen, University of Bergen, Norway
Yngve.Lithman@rokkan.uib.no

Jørgen Melve
IMER Norway / Bergen, University of Bergen, Norway
Jorgen.Melve@rokkan.uib.no

Tom Sandlund
Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism
tom.sandlund@helsinki.fi

Hakan G. Sicakkan
IMER Norway / Bergen, University of Bergen, Norway
Hakan.Sicakkan@isp.uib.no





Summary:
This session is the second one of two (96 &97)workshop sessions dealing with the alignments and misalignments between belongings and citizenships. The intending participants are recommended to participate both sessions. This session focuses on globalized belongings and new ways of exercising citizenship rights in European glocal spaces.



Date: 12 September


(1 session is 3 hours)
Number of sessions: 1

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