The Human Right to Citizenship : A Slippery Concept.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (325 pages)
- Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights Series .
- Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights Series .
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.