Discursos y proceso de elaboración constitucional: la construcción constituyente del concepto de ciudadanía en la Constitución Ecuatoriana de 2008

Abstract

The concept of citizenship goes back from the dawn of Greece and Rome to the present day, where its theorization process has been delimited according to the socio-historical processes that have determined its content as legal status or socio-political concept. In Ecuador, citizenship has been expanded in a process of extension of democracy with the influence of certain social and political circumstances that have intervened in the amplification of its conception. The political disaster at the beginning of the 21th century in Ecuador marked the beginning of the constituent process of 2008, which was characterized by the Latin American progressive wave, which resulted in the materialization of a highly guaranteed and inclusive constitution. In this context, the debate on the conception of citizenship was extended to universalist and integration ideas that consider contemporary events such as the birth of Human Rights, migration, and the recognition of multinational societies. From a methodology that uses the triangulation of objects (discourse analysis and semi-structured interviews), the main constitutional precepts referring to citizenship were studied, as an eminently inclusive institution anchoring its conception to human beings as subjects of rights, beyond their source.