Collected Papers | Volume 2
On 24 January 2014, scholars from the American University of Sharjah and the London School of Economics and Political Science convened a workshop on the question of ‘Challenges to Citizenship after the Arab Uprisings’. A selection of the working papers is now available from the Middle East Centre, reflecting a range of theoretical and empirical understandings of how belonging and political identity have evolved in juridical practice and social life in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region after 2011. The cases reflect the diversity of experience from North Africa to the Arabian Peninsula. The papers explore how, even within non-revolutionary states, ideas about citizenship have been changing and as citizens and non-citizens test those boundaries within law and society, the outcomes reveal tensions and mounting pressures to reform along gender, class and ethnic lines.
Papers
Overview: Challenges to Citizenship in the Middle East and North Africa Region Post-2011
Karen E. Young
Gradations of Citizenship in the United Arab Emirates
Kevin W. Gray
Torn Citizenship in Kuwait: Commodification versus Rights-Based Approaches
Claire Beaugrand
Constitutionalism and Transitions in North Africa: Analysing Conflicts between Legal and Extra-Legal Sources of Constitutional Rights
James N. Sater
Concepts of Citizenship in Tunisia Following the Fall of Ben Ali
Thomas DeGeorges
‘Global Citizen’ and the Dislocated Generation in the United Arab Emirates
Yuting Wang