Citizenship in Question -

Citizenship in Question

Evidentiary Birthright and Statelessness
Buch | Hardcover
312 Seiten
2017
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-6280-7 (ISBN)
119,95 inkl. MwSt
The contributors to Citizenship in Question demonstrate that the line separating citizenship and noncitizenship is ambiguous and inconsistent. In case studies analyzing the legal barriers to citizenship rights in over twenty countries, the contributors show how states use citizenship requirements to police racial, ethnic, class, and religious difference.
Citizenship is often assumed to be a clear-cut issue—either one has it or one does not. However, as the contributors to Citizenship in Question demonstrate, citizenship is not self-evident; it emerges from often obscure written records and is interpreted through ambiguous and dynamic laws. In case studies that analyze the legal barriers to citizenship rights in over twenty countries, the contributors explore how states use evidentiary requirements to create and police citizenship, often based on fictions of racial, ethnic, class, and religious differences. Whether examining the United States’ deportation of its own citizens, the selective use of DNA tests and secret results in Thailand, or laws that have stripped entire populations of citizenship, the contributors emphasize the political, psychological, and personal impact of citizenship policies. Citizenship in Question incites scholars to revisit long-standing political theories and debates about nationality, free movement, and immigration premised on the assumption of clear demarcations between citizens and noncitizens.
 Contributors. Alfred Babo, Jacqueline Bhabha, Jacqueline Field, Amanda Flaim, Sara L. Friedman, Daniel Kanstroom, Benjamin N. Lawrance, Beatrice McKenzie, Polly J. Price, Rachel E. Rosenbloom, Kim Rubenstein, Kamal Sadiq, Jacqueline Stevens, Margaret D. Stock

Benjamin N. Lawrance is Hon. Barber B. Conable Jr. Endowed Professor of International Studies and Professor of History and Anthropology at Rochester Institute of Technology and the author of Amistad's Orphans: An Atlantic Story of Children, Slavery, and Smuggling. Jacqueline Stevens is Professor of Political Science and founding director of the Deportation Research Clinic in the Buffett Institute for Global Studies at Northwestern University and the author of States without Nations: Citizenship for Mortals.

Preface: Ace's Story  ix

Acknowledgments  xv

Introduction / Jacqueline Stevens  1

Part I. International and Regional Protocols: Citizenship and Statelessness Protocols

1. Jus Soli and Statelessness: A Comparative Perspective from the Americas / Polly J. Price  27

2. The Politics of Evidence: Roma Citizenship Deficits in Europe / Jacqueline Bhabha  43

3. Statelessness-in-Question: Expert Testimony and the Evidentiary Burden of Statelessness / Benjamin N. Lawrance  60

4. Reproducing Uncertainty: Documenting Contested Sovereignty and Citizenship across the Taiwan Strait / Sara L. Friedman  81

5. What is a "Real" Australian Citizen?: Insights from Papua New Guinea and Mr. Amos Ame / Kim Rubenstein with Jacqueline Field  100

Part II. Official or Administrative Acts

6. To Know a Citizen: Birthright Citizenship Documents Regimes in U.S. History / Beatrice McKenzie  117

7. From the Outside Looking In: U.S. Passports in the Borderlands / Rachel E. Rosenbloom  132

8. Problems of Evidence, Evidence of Problems: Expanding Citizenship and Reproducing Statelessness among Highlanders in Northern Thailand / Amanda Flaim  147

9. Limits of Legal Citizenship: Narratives from South and Southeast Asia / Kamal Sadiq  165

Part III. Legislatures and Court Disputes

10. American Birthright Citizenship Rules and the Exclusion of "Outsiders" from the Political Community / Margaret D. Stock  179

11. Ivoirité and Citizenship in Ivory Coast: The Controversial Policy of Authenticity / Alfred Babo  200

12. The Alien Who Is a Citizen / Jacqueline Stevens  217

Afterword / Daniel Kanstroom  240

References  247

Contributors  275

Index  279

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort North Carolina
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 544 g
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Öffentliches Recht Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-8223-6280-5 / 0822362805
ISBN-13 978-0-8223-6280-7 / 9780822362807
Zustand Neuware
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