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The birthright lottery : citizenship and global inequality / Ayelet Shachar.
LIBRA K3224 .S53 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shachar, Ayelet, 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Citizenship.
- Sociological jurisprudence.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 273 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the puzzle of birthright citizenship
- Reconceptualizing membership : citizenship as inherited property
- Abolishing versus resurrecting borders : moving beyond the binary options
- A new basis for global redistribution : the birthright privilege levy
- Blood and soil : birthright citizenship in the domestic arena
- Popular defenses of birthright citizenship and their limitations
- Curtailing inheritance : towards a jus nexi membership allocation principle.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-261) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674032712
- 0674032713
- OCLC:
- 246200060
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