Citizenship in Question (eBook, PDF)

Evidentiary Birthright and Statelessness
Redaktion: Benjamin N. Lawrance, Lawrance

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822373483
• Artikelnr.: 54669722

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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