Session de visioconférence enregistré pour l'UE d'Initiation génie Logiciel de la Licence 3 mathématiques-informatique en télé-enseignement.

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The Ancestral Citizenship in Europe (ACE) project is pleased to announce its inaugural webinar series, ACE Dialogues: Going Back to Go Forward.

This series explores ancestral citizenship, the practice of granting citizenship based on descent or historical restitution to individuals living abroad. At a time of shifting migration policies and reckonings with historical injustice, we will examine how this phenomenon reshapes migration and challenges conventional ideas of nationhood. We invite you to join us for this timely and critical series of conversations.

Seeing Like a Racial State: The Colonial and Racial Capitalist Roots of German Citizenship

Sabrina Axster (Cornell University)

Abstract: How do states determine who should be a member of their citizenry, and what logics drive these decisions? In the German context, this question has predominantly been answered through an emphasis on state formation. Through a historical case study of Germany’s 1913 citizenship act, this talk brings a different set of drivers into view. It situates the making of the 1913 act within German overseas colonialism, the territorial expansion to the European east, German mass emigration to the settler-colonies of the Americas, shifting labor and employment relations, and the increase of foreign workers in the German metropole. Mobilizing the postcolonial migration scholarship and theories of racial capitalism, the talk reveals how citizenship laws emerged as one of the tools of state power to balance the demands of racial and colonial capitalism for land, labor, and resources with the desire to “secure” the white German polity from the racial other in Europe and the colonies. Ultimately, this shows that the making of the German citizenry is as much a story of racial and colonial capitalism as it is a story of state building.

Bio: Sabrina Axster holds a PhD in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University and is currently a regional affiliate scholar with the Migrations Program in the Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University, where she was also a postdoctoral fellow from 2023 to 2025. Her research sits at the nexus of international political sociology, migration studies, and post-colonial theory and examines the racial, capitalist, and colonial roots of contemporary border control regimes and policing.