Sean Oliver-Dee on Citizenship

The latest Cambridge Paper from the Jubilee Centre is available online, this one by Sean Oliver-Dee:

Sean Oliver-Dee, ‘Integration, Assimilation and Fundamental British Values: Invested Citizenship and 21st Century “Belonging”’, Cambridge Papers 26, 3 (September 2017).

Here is the summary:

‘This paper proposes a new approach to citizenship in the UK. It tracks the short-term history of how questions of identity, citizenship and “Britishness’”were engaged with over the past forty years, whilst highlighting the systemic difficulties encountered when trying to create a sense of common identity, before moving on to analyse the limitations of the very different traditional approaches to inculcating citizenship: integration and assimilation. This becomes the basis for the paper’s proposition of a new approach to the issue, which is labelled ‘Invested Citizenship’. A form of citizenship in which, the paper proposes, Christians can (and should) play an active part.’