Contesting regimes of post-communist citizenship restitution: analysing UK media coverage of ‘paupers’ passports’
Journal: London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Year: 2017

This paper unpacks the legitimacy gap existing between post-communist policies of citizenship restitu-tion, the experiences of these policies, and the media coverage of these policies. Considering citizenship restitution first as analogous to property restitution, theoretically citizenship restitution appears as com-pensatory, to right the wrongs of communist- and Soviet-era seizures and border changes, and appears to establish citizenship restitution as a right. Using UK media coverage of Roman