Núm. 19. El derecho de voto de los extranjeros en España en perspectiva europea
Documentos CIDOB Migraciones; 19
Citizenship is frequently used as a legal condition for belonging to a State, thereby confusing it with nationality. In Europe, the way is being prepared for a new, civic-social concept of citizenship, to the detriment of State sovereignty. There seems to be a clear need to root the concept of citizenship not in people's belonging to a Nation-State or in ius sanguinis, but in their effective participation in the life of a territorial community, in their free choice to reside and live in a specific country. The idea of citizenship should include, either implicitly or explicitly, the correlation between rights and responsibilities, and in this respect the most serious limitation of civic-social citizenship is the failure to give political rights to foreigners, an area that some authors have defined as “the last border of political citizenship”. The aim of this text is to analyse how to overcome the absence of political rights among foreigners in the organisation of Spain and within the framework of the European Union.
ISSN: 1697-7734 (print edition)
ISSN: 1697-8145 (online edition)
Ángel G. Chueca Sancho and Pascual Aguelo Navarro
Date of publication: 07/2009
Issue price: 8 €
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