Jusletter IT

The main question of this research project is to explore as how the Internet and the concepts of e-government and e-democracy can be used to facilitate the integration of foreigners in their new home country. Our goal is to propose a concept of e-citizen: During the first year
of migration the migrant has ties with his home country but also he/she develops new ties in the host country. Such a transition phase is characterized by a reduced role of citizenship, since the migrant cannot exercise his rights in full in his home country (except for some
states that allow distant voting’s) and also they cannot obtain citizen rights in their new host country, where they are employed. Thus we want to explore the possibility that the spectrum of citizen rights can the divided between the host and the home country. Depending on
certain conditions (language, cultural, legal etc) the new group of e-citizen should get increasing right in the new country while at the same time he can keep and work on his ties with his home country.