Citizenship in question : evidentiary birthright and statelessness / Benjamin N. Lawrance & Jacqueline Stevens, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lawrance, Benjamin N. (Benjamin Nicholas), editor.

Stevens, Jacqueline, 1962- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Citizenship.

Statelessness.

Asylum, Right of.

Belonging (Social psychology)--Political aspects.

Belonging (Social psychology).

Physical Description:

xvi, 287 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Jus soli and statelessness : a comparative perspective from the Americas / Polly J. Price

The politics of evidence : Roma citizenship deficits in Europe / Jacqueline Bhabha

Statelessness-in-question : expert testimony and the evidentiary burden of statelessness / Benjamin N. Lawrance

Reproducing uncertainty : documenting contested sovereignty and citizenship across the Taiwan Strait / Sara L. Friedman

What is a "real" Australian citizen? : insights from Papua New Guinea and Mr. Amos Ame / Kim Rubenstein with Jacqueline Field

To know a citizen : birthright citizenship documents regimes in U.S. history / Beatrice McKenzie

From the outside looking in : U.S. passports in the Borderlands / Rachel E. Rosenbloom

Problems of evidence, evidence of problems : expanding citizenship and reproducing statelessness among Highlanders in northern Thailand / Amanda Flaim

Limits of legal citizenship : narratives from South and Southeast Asia / Kamal Sadiq

American birthright citizenship rules and the exclusion of "outsiders" from the political community / Margaret D. Stock

Ivoirité and citizenship in Ivory Coast : the controversial policy of authenticity / Alfred Babo

The alien who Is a citizen / Jacqueline Stevens.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Citizenship in question.

ISBN:

9780822362807

0822362805

9780822362913

0822362910

OCLC:

942838507