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Migrants, Minorities, Belongings and Citizenship. Glocalization and ...

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Residence, Permanent Residence, Matrimony <strong>and</strong> Family Union/Reunion, <strong>Citizenship</strong><br />

Acquisition<br />

The rights that Glocalmig focuses on differ significantly in the member <strong>and</strong> associated<br />

countries; <strong>and</strong> the comparative picture that this component provides is crucial. The<br />

results from this component are a part of QC-CITBASE.<br />

Dimension 3: Institutions <strong>and</strong> policies of citizenship<br />

This component organizes, analyzes, <strong>and</strong> presents the data about institutions <strong>and</strong> policies<br />

of citizenship in six countries. The focus is on the impacts of the institutional <strong>and</strong> policy<br />

frames of member states as well as of the European Union on citizens’ <strong>and</strong> residents’<br />

rights exercise, involvement in politics, coexistence <strong>and</strong> mobility.<br />

The institutional frames are analyzed in two main categories: the numeric channel <strong>and</strong><br />

the corporate-plural channel. These two channels constitute the national space of<br />

belonging <strong>and</strong> political action. The institutions framing the rights of citizens <strong>and</strong> residents<br />

concerning their participation in the numeric channel are election systems, welfare<br />

systems, party systems, <strong>and</strong> representation systems. This project component assesses to<br />

what extent the four categories under our investigation have been involved <strong>and</strong> active in<br />

the corporate-plural bodies <strong>and</strong> to what extent this involvement affect their participation<br />

in the numeric (elections <strong>and</strong> party politics) <strong>and</strong> alternative (essentialized, glocal <strong>and</strong><br />

transnational spaces) channels. The questions to be answered in this project component<br />

are:<br />

1) What local, sub-national, national, <strong>and</strong> supranational institutional arrangements<br />

<strong>and</strong> policies exist for guaranteeing the rights of majority citizens, second <strong>and</strong><br />

third country nationals, historical minorities, <strong>and</strong> extra-territorial <strong>and</strong> extra-<br />

European citizens (party systems, election systems, representation systems,<br />

interest organizations, immigrant <strong>and</strong> historical minority organizations,<br />

corporate representation <strong>and</strong> voice structures <strong>and</strong> institutions involved here,<br />

NGOs, transnational organizations, <strong>and</strong> state institutions involved in securing<br />

<strong>and</strong> serving these rights in practice; the names, calls <strong>and</strong> functions of these<br />

institutions; information about their interaction with other sub-national,<br />

national, transnational <strong>and</strong> supranational institutions <strong>and</strong> policies –e.g. the EU’s<br />

INTERREG programmes).<br />

2) How these institutions <strong>and</strong> policies provide effective/ineffective participation,<br />

influence, <strong>and</strong> voice to our four categories<br />

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