Formal liberal citizenship equality masks an assimilationist strategy

Evidence

“Certain groups may now enjoy nominal citizenship status, but their members are, in fact, afforded less in the way of substantive citizenship than others in society.” Linda Bosniak, The Citizen and the Alien: Dilemmas of Contemporary Membership (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006), p. 30. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 672 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Liberal World Government would eliminate authentic politics among peoples; Liberalism must be reformed to accommodate recognition of collective identities; Liberal state neutrality presupposes cultural homogeneity among the governed — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 358 (+14 more)

Related

• Formal citizenship can mask disparities in substantive citizenship (similarity 0.85)
• Equal-lives rhetoric masks a new hierarchy between nationals and foreigners (similarity 0.85)
• Liberal state neutrality presupposes cultural homogeneity among the governed (similarity 0.82)
• Liberal tolerance rhetoric collapses back into a justification for global rule (similarity 0.80)
• Multicultural politics must build plural public spheres resisting liberal formal equivalence. (similarity 0.79)
• Formal citizenship (legal membership) differs from substantive citizenship (actual rights enjoyed) (similarity 0.79)
• Citizenship depends on community recognition, not just legal status (similarity 0.79)
• Liberal World Government would eliminate authentic politics among peoples (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Formal citizenship can mask disparities in substantive citizenship #expands (0.92) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 672
• Equal-lives rhetoric masks a new hierarchy between nationals and foreigners #expands (0.90)
• Liberal tolerance disguises cultural privilege and collapses into assimilation demands when tested. #corroborates (0.90)
• Colonial liberal assimilation differed fundamentally from later racialized exclusion #qualifies (0.85) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 63
• Assimilationism operates as solipsistic narcissism that cannot recognize otherness #expands (0.85)
• Politicizing religion functions as assimilation as well as exclusion #expands (0.72)