About Citizens and Aliens
Citizens and Aliens (C&A) is part of a set of initiatives on Citizenship-related studies co-founded by Horst Mewes and Paulo Zagalo e Melo, which also includes Future Citizenship – a venture to promote and facilitate access to citizenship projects internationally; and Future Citizens – a peer-reviewed electronic journal publishing scholarly work on various aspects of citizenship.
The main activity of Citizens and Aliens is the development of educational programs in citizenship-related studies, such as undergraduate and graduate seminars, courses, or workshops.
Citizens and Aliens is also a space for sharing knowledge and promote debate on issues of community, belonging, citizenship, membership, migration, and migrant integration. Consequently, Citizens and Aliens does not aim at promoting any particular view or policy, but rather at introducing, analyzing and weighing prominent and promising theories and policies.
The Citizens and Aliens Seminar Series is the offspring of a seminar entitled "Migration, Integration, and Modern Theories of Citizenship", taught by Horst Mewes at Institute of Political Studies (IEP) of the Catholic University of Portugal (UCP), in the Spring of 2008.