Quantum mechanics

Algorithm

Citizenship

Nazism

Power (physics)

Computer science

Polity

Physics

Politics

Political science

Immigration

Democracy

Criminology

Sociology

Nationality

State (computer science)

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

In this piece, I consider the relationship between denationalisation and discrimination. Denationalisation, the involuntary removal of citizenship or nationality by the state, has a dark history, reflected in the Nazi use of the power. Yet before 1945, many liberal democratic states also practiced citizenship-stripping, in ways informed by considerations of gender, race, national origin, and mode of citizenship acquisition. As denationalisation is currently making a revival across a range of liberal democratic states as a way of responding to 'home grown' terrorists, a question emerges: Do recent denationalisation provisions manage to break free of this discriminatory past? Here, I use a discussion of denationalisation's history and examination of the U.K. as the basis for a critical assessment of the power's contemporary incarnations. I find that contemporary denationalisation power is still a powerful tracer of groups within the polity who, despite holding formal citizenship, are viewed as foreign.

Denationalisation and discrimination