Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: Iordachi, Constantin
Year: 2001
Title: The unyielding boundaries of citizenship. The emancipation of "non-citizens" in Romania, 1866-1918
Journal: European Review of History
Volume: 8
Issue: 2
Pages: 157-786
Language: English
Keywords: Jewish minority, history, emancipation, modern period, politics, legal status, naturalization, legislation
Abstract: (En) This article attempts to contribute historical data to studies of the emergence and development of the institution of citizenship in Romania. Designed as an overview of Romanian citizenship legislation between 1866 and 1918, the article focuses on the contradiction between claims for the universality of bourgeois-democratic liberal ideology and the hierarchic and illiberal citizenship practice, which disenfranchised a considerable number of men, denied women substantive civic and political rights and excluded from state citizenship significant ethnic and religious minorities. Special attention is devoted to the legal status of these categories of 'non-citizens,' to their strategies of emancipation and their relationship with the Romanian national ideology.