Citizenship in the context of globalization

• Author: Ulvin Veizaj
• Pages: 208-216

Vol. 3 No. 3

November 2017

Academic Journal of Business, Administration, Law and Social Sciences

IIPCCL Publishing, Graz-Austria

ISSN 2410-3918

Acces online at www.iipccl.org

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Citizenship in the context of globalization

Msc. Ulvin Veizaj

Abstract

Citizenship is considered as a legal relationship in the basis of which is a social fact, a feeling

and solidarity interest, combined with reciprocity of rights and obligations.1 Citizenship is a

legal expression for the fact that the person who posses that, a ributed to him by the law or

by an act, is more closely associated with the population of the state of his citizenship than the

population of any other state.

At the moment obtaining the citizenship, it is also granted the possibility to exercise the

right in international level, by the states, for the diplomatic protection of its citizens in cases

when they are punished. This justifi es and legitimizes the requirements of states for granting

citizenship in terms of performance and behavior2, imposing restrictions such as military

service; payment of tax liabilities or exercise of jurisdiction.

Citizenship is considered a fundamental category for the understanding of liberal democracy.

It is considered a strategic element to understand the organization and functioning of

democratic institutions (Zolo, 1994, IX). Citizenship is considered an important element as,

through the sociological legal approach, it helps us to link individual rights to the political

environment. It also a ects the analysis of the relationship between the state level of the rights

protection and the international one on which it depends, in an increasingly global society, the

possibility of the e ective enjoyment of the rights and freedoms.

If we were to ask a simple question of who was considered a citizen, we would immediately

create a circle of people who have relations with the state in terms of family background or

territorial a liation. This category of persons, considered as citizens, is easily distinguished

by foreigners because they are subject to the legislation of another country, and consequently

posses the rights and also must fulfi ll the obligations established in their own country. Thus,

citizenship is a subjective status that implies membership in a political community, and results

as the owner of a range of rights recognized and guaranteed by the same community.

Keywords: Citizenship, Context, Globalization.

Introduction

The legal concept of "state" refers to three aspects. First, the objective aspect indicates

the internal and external sovereignty of state power. The second aspect comes out

from the territorial point of view showing the territory in which this sovereignty is

being exercised. The third is the social aspect that refers to a number of individuals

belonging to and are also defi ned as "the people of the state”.

A person can be an owner, within the territorial sphere of the state, a legal position

established by legal standards.

Now days, terms like "population of a country" and "nation" are used to mean each

other, or as equivalent to each other. Indeed, the term nation has a specifi city with

political and cultural hues, this because it supports not only a political community,

1 h p://www.enciclopedia-juridica.biz14.com/it/d/ci adinanza/ci adinanza.htm..

2 Ibidem.