Political love: affect, instrumentalism and dual citizenship legislation in the Philippines
Political love: affect, instrumentalism and dual citizenship legislation in the Philippines
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政治之爱:菲律宾的情感、工具主义和双重国籍立法
DOI:
10.1080/13621025.2018.1538317
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发表时间:
2018
影响因子:
1.8
通讯作者:
Filomeo V. Aguilar
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作者:
Filomeo V. Aguilar
ABSTRACT In line with studies of dual citizenship that point to the need for in-depth understanding of the reasoning behind this legislative change, this study provides an analysis of the discourse that lawmakers parlayed during the debate that resulted in the passage of the Philippine citizenship retention and reacquisition law in 2003. Because of the constitutional prohibition against dual allegiance, legislators constructed a narrative with emotive force to justify emigration as well as naturalization in the destination, the latter act portrayed as devoid of political love that Filipinos supposedly reserve for the homeland. Emblematic of affective citizenship even while the state actually instrumentalized it, the passage of the law affirmed a traditional notion of exclusive singular citizenship, while concomitantly providing indirect tolerance of dual, nonexclusive citizenship for conationals overseas.