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The Human Right to Citizenship : A Slippery Concept.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (325 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812291421
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Human Right to CitizenshipDDC classification:
  • 323.6
LOC classification:
  • JF801 -- .H863 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: The Human Right to Citizenship -- PART I. THE LEGAL CONTEXT -- Chapter 1. Human Rights of Noncitizens -- Chapter 2. Statelessness: A Matter of Human Rights -- PART II. GROUP STATELESSNESS -- Chapter 3. The Palestinian People: Ambiguities of Citizenship -- Chapter 4. State of Stateless People: The Plight of Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh -- Chapter 5. Mobilizing Against Statelessness: The Case of Brazilian Emigrant Communities -- PART III. LEGISLATED LIMBO -- Chapter 6. Natives, Subjects, and Wannabes: Internal Citizenship Problems in Postcolonial Nigeria -- Chapter 7. Capricious Citizenship: Identity, Identification, and Banglo-Indians -- Chapter 8. Are Children's Rights to Citizenship Slippery or Slimy? -- Chapter 9. How Citizenship Laws Leave the Roma in Europe's Hinterland -- PART IV. LABOR MIGRANTS -- Chapter 10. Slippery Slopes into Illegality and the Erosion of Citizenship in the United States -- Chapter 11. Managed into the Margins: Examining Citizenship and Human Rights of Migrant Workers in Canada -- PART V. EMERGING ISSUES AND MODELS -- Chapter 12. Shapeshifting Citizenship in Germany: Expansion, Erosion, and Extension -- Chapter 13. Multiple Citizenships and Slippery Statecraft -- Chapter 14. Sticky Citizenship -- Conclusion: Slippery Citizenship and Retrenching Rights -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: The Human Right to Citizenship provides an accessible overview of citizenship around the globe, focusing on empirical cases of denied or weakened legal rights. This wide-ranging volume provides a theoretical framework to understand the particular ambiguities, paradoxes, and evolutions of citizenship regimes in the twenty-first century.
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Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: The Human Right to Citizenship -- PART I. THE LEGAL CONTEXT -- Chapter 1. Human Rights of Noncitizens -- Chapter 2. Statelessness: A Matter of Human Rights -- PART II. GROUP STATELESSNESS -- Chapter 3. The Palestinian People: Ambiguities of Citizenship -- Chapter 4. State of Stateless People: The Plight of Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh -- Chapter 5. Mobilizing Against Statelessness: The Case of Brazilian Emigrant Communities -- PART III. LEGISLATED LIMBO -- Chapter 6. Natives, Subjects, and Wannabes: Internal Citizenship Problems in Postcolonial Nigeria -- Chapter 7. Capricious Citizenship: Identity, Identification, and Banglo-Indians -- Chapter 8. Are Children's Rights to Citizenship Slippery or Slimy? -- Chapter 9. How Citizenship Laws Leave the Roma in Europe's Hinterland -- PART IV. LABOR MIGRANTS -- Chapter 10. Slippery Slopes into Illegality and the Erosion of Citizenship in the United States -- Chapter 11. Managed into the Margins: Examining Citizenship and Human Rights of Migrant Workers in Canada -- PART V. EMERGING ISSUES AND MODELS -- Chapter 12. Shapeshifting Citizenship in Germany: Expansion, Erosion, and Extension -- Chapter 13. Multiple Citizenships and Slippery Statecraft -- Chapter 14. Sticky Citizenship -- Conclusion: Slippery Citizenship and Retrenching Rights -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Acknowledgments.

The Human Right to Citizenship provides an accessible overview of citizenship around the globe, focusing on empirical cases of denied or weakened legal rights. This wide-ranging volume provides a theoretical framework to understand the particular ambiguities, paradoxes, and evolutions of citizenship regimes in the twenty-first century.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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