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Nations are defined as populations endowed by specific citizenship rights within a bounded territory under the control of a political regime. The degree of existing rules of inclusion and exclusion, the shared collective self-definitions, and popular practices determine the easiness of how boundaries can be crossed by insiders and outsiders.
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Kurthen, H. (2006). Germany’s Coming Out: Citizenship and Immigration Reform since Unification. In: Starkman, R.A. (eds) Transformations of the New Germany. Studies in European Culture and History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403984661_10
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