Dubbelt medborgarskap

Sammanfattning: The aim of this study is to further the understanding of why dual citizenship continues to reappear in Dutch debates while dual citizenship has remained rather uncontested in Sweden for the last decade. Differences in the in which terms dual citizenship is discussed and the way dual citizenship is perceived is put forward as a possible explanation for this difference between the countries. Using Laclau and Mouffes discourse theory a discourse analysis is made of official government reports in both countries in order to find the discourses that are articulated in these reports. Theories on nationalism and transnationalism are used to put the discourses on dual citizenship in a broader context. The study shows that there are differences in the ways in which dual citizenship is discussed between the countries, but in the reports from both countries show a tendency towards a transnational perspective on dual citizenship.