When States Take Rights Back

Émilien Fargues is a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute and a research associate in the Global Citizenship Governance project at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Sciences Po Paris. Elke Winter is the William Lyon Mackenzie King Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, Professor of Sociology at the University of Ottawa, and Research Director at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Citizenship and Minorities (CIRCEM). Her research is concerned with questions of migration, ethnic diversity, multiculturalism, and citizenship. Matthew J. Gibney is Professor of Politics and Forced Migration at the University of Oxford, Official Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford, and Director of the Refugee Studies Centre. He specialises in the political and ethical issues raised by refugees, citizenship, and migration control.

1. Conditional membership: what revocation does to citizenship Émilien Fargues and Elke Winter 2. Governing imperial citizenship: a historical account of citizenship revocation Deirdre Troy 3. Discussing the human rights limits on loss of citizenship: a normative-legal perspective on egalitarian arguments regarding Dutch Nationality laws targeting Dutch-Moroccans Tom L. Boekestein and Gerard-René de Groot 4. The politics of un-belonging: lessons from Canada’s experiment with citizenship revocation Elke Winter and Ivana Previsic 5. Denaturalisation and conceptions of citizenship in the ‘war on terror" Patrick Sykes 6. Simply a matter of compliance with the rules? The moralising and responsibilising function of fraud-based citizenship deprivation in France and the UK Émilien Fargues 7. The concept of allegiance in citizenship law and revocation: an Australian study Helen Irving 8. Citizenship revocation: a stress test for liberal democracy Janie Pélabay and Réjane Sénac