anticitizenship

anticitizenship

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ citizenship

Noun

anticitizenship (uncountable)

1. 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

behaviour opposite to that expected of a citizen

Portuguese: anticidadania f

Adjective

anticitizenship (comparative more anticitizenship, superlative most anticitizenship)

1. 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.