Citizenship as social object in the aftermath of the Yugoslav break-up
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The break-up of Yugoslavia disintegrated the Yugoslav citizenship regime,
and new communities of citizens and citizenship regulations were born. Since the
identitarian and lived aspects of citizenship are inseparable from its formal and legal
aspects, (not) having the ‘right’ personal documents and (not) being recognized as the
‘right’ kind of citizen had profound effects on the lives of many individuals. Relying
on the concept of documentality and stressing the feature of documents as being constitutive
of social reality, this article analyses personal narratives illustrating the lived
experience of citizenship transformations after the break-up of Yugoslavia.
Keywords:
belonging / citizenship / documentality / lived experience / post-Yugoslav spaceSource:
Nations and Nationalism, 2018Projects:
- CITSEE - The Europeanisation of Citizenship in the Successor States of the Former Yugoslavia (EU-230239)
DOI: 10.1111/nana.12389
ISSN: 1469-8129