anticitizenship
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From anti- + citizenship.
Noun
[edit]anticitizenship (uncountable)
- Behaviour opposite to that expected of a citizen.
- 1992, Ronald Beiner, What's the Matter with Liberalism?:
- Rather than furnishing an education in citizenship, it offers an education in anticitizenship.
Translations
[edit]behaviour opposite to that expected of a citizen
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Adjective
[edit]anticitizenship (comparative more anticitizenship, superlative most anticitizenship)
- Opposing the granting of citizenship.
- 2013, Dr Susanne Wessendorf, Second-Generation Transnationalism and Roots Migration:
- This kind of discourse was used in reaction to the anticitizenship campaigns of the populist right-wing parties, which consisted of, for example, posters showing Swiss identity cards with a photo of Osama Bin Laden.