Legal narratives of citizenship, the social question, and public order in Colombia, 1915–1930 and after

This article focuses on what happened to citizenship rights in Colombia in the 1920s when urbanization and industrialization brought the ‘social question’ to the fore. In exploring the categories relating to citizenship and narratives about them in laws and congressional debates, it reads the fields of political, social, and civil rights in relation to one another and signals the particular anxieties that centred and still today centre on civil rights or, viewed obversely, on concerns about state security and public order.