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Birthright citizenship in the United States : analyses and perspectives / Garrett Manning, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Human rights, background and issues.
- Human Rights: Background and Issues
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Constitution--14th Amendment.
- United States.
- Citizenship--United States.
- Citizenship.
- Children of immigrants--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.
- Children of immigrants.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (129 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, [New York] : Novinka, 2016.
- Summary:
- The first clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, known as the Citizenship Clause, provides that [a]ll persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. This generally has been taken to mean that any person born in the United States automatically gains U.S. citizenship, regardless of the citizenship or immigration status of the persons parents, with limited exceptions such as children born to recognized foreign diplomats. The current rule is often called birthright citizenship. However, driven in part by concerns about unauthorized immigration, some have questioned this understanding of the Citizenship Clause, and in particular the meaning of subject to the jurisdiction [of the United States]. This book traces the history of birthright citizenship under U.S. law and discusses some of the legislation in recent Congresses intended to alter it.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed Novermber 11, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 1-63485-259-1
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