The main thesis can be summarized the following way: If freedom-status is the master good
for republicans then, when democratic participation and mandatory citizenship undermine
the self-respect of permanent minorities, self-alienation becomes a political status
compatible with the republican ideal of freedom as non-domination. By self-alienation I
understand the voluntary withdrawal of active democratic participation, the rejection of
national membership as citizen, and the assumption of the status of permanent resident.
The paper argues that permanent residency and national citizenship must be conceived
as equivalent statuses in terms of non-domination and therefore, as compatible forms of
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