Final Report Summary - CITSEE (The Europeanisation of Citizenship in the Successor States of the Former Yugoslavia)
In a first phase of research, CITSEE made use of a standardised research instrument for mapping the emergence, evolution, context and content of national citizenship regimes which had been developed by the EUDO Citizenship Observatory at the European University Institute (www.eudo-citizenship.eu) of which the PI is a co-Director. The use of this instrument has facilitated comparisons not just between the CITSEE states, but also with other European states covered in the EUDO Observatory. 12 working papers were producing mapping the citizenship regimes and putting them in political and constitutional context. Country case study papers distilling the most important issues related to the citizenship regimes were published, with an introduction, as a special issue of the leading subject-area journal Citizenship Studies in 2012, and translated into one of the local languages (Serbian).
The second phase of research took this work as a baseline and developed a series of comparative studies focused on key issues such as ethnic selection, minority statuses, gender issues, territoriality, and the governance of citizenship in a multi-level constitutional context. Working papers and three journal special issues have been produced as a result of this work in leading sectoral journals. Alongside this second phase, the PI and the senior researcher worked on their own monographs emerging from the project, which will be published in 2016 (Cambridge University Press) and 2015 (Bloomsbury) respectively. Another CITSEE research fellows who had moved to a postdoctoral position at another university also produced a monograph based on CITSEE research in 2015 (Ashgate).
CITSEE’s dissemination strategy was wide-ranging. It included the website mentioned above (www.citsee.ed.ac.uk) a web magazine (www.citsee.eu) aimed at making research accessible to wider society, short films and animations (viewed more than 100k times during the lifetime of the project), as well as standard outputs in the form of journal articles, special issues, chapters and books.