The Human Right to Citizenship : : A Slippery Concept / / ed. by Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Margaret Walton-Roberts.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Baer, Michal,; Belton, Kristy A.,; Bhabha, Jacqueline,; Faist, Thomas,; Hennebry, Jenna,; Hiemstra, Nancy,; Howard-Hassmann, Rhoda E.,; Macklin, Audrey,; Matache, Margareta,; McLaughlin, Janet,; Moulin, Carolina,; Mountz, Alison,; O'Nions, Helen,; Odinkalu, Chidi Anselm,; Ramachandran, Sujata,; Rygiel, Kim,; Uddin, Nasir,; Walton-Roberts, Margaret,; Weissbrodt, David,
• HerausgeberIn: Howard-Hassmann, Rhoda E.,; Walton-Roberts, Margaret,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 5 illus.

In principle, no human individual should be rendered stateless: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights stipulates that the right to have or change citizenship cannot be denied. In practice, the legal claim of citizenship is a slippery concept that can be manipulated to serve state interests. On a spectrum from those who enjoy the legal and social benefits of citizenship to those whose right to nationality is outright refused, people with many kinds of status live in various degrees of precariousness within states that cannot or will not protect them. These include documented and undocumented migrants as well as conventional refugees and asylum seekers living in various degrees of uncertainty. Vulnerable populations such as ethnic minorities and women and children may find that de jure citizenship rights are undermined by de facto restrictions on their access, mobility, or security.The Human Right to Citizenship provides an accessible overview of citizenship regimes around the globe, focusing on empirical cases of denied or weakened legal rights. Exploring the legal and social implications of specific national contexts, contributors examine the status of labor migrants in the United States and Canada, the changing definition of citizenship in Nigeria, Germany, India, and Brazil, and the rights of ethnic groups including Palestinians, Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, Bangladeshi migrants to India, and Roma in Europe. Other chapters consider children's rights to citizenship, multiple citizenships, and unwanted citizenships. With a broad geographical scope, this volume provides a wide-ranging theoretical and legal framework to understand the particular ambiguities, paradoxes, and evolutions of citizenship regimes in the twenty-first century.Contributors: Michal Baer, Kristy A. Belton, Jacqueline Bhabha, Thomas Faist, Jenna Hennebry, Nancy Hiemstra, Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Audrey Macklin, Margareta Matache, Janet McLaughlin, Carolina Moulin, Alison Mountz, Helen O'Nions, Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, Sujata Ramachandran, Kim Rygiel, Nasir Uddin, Margaret Walton-Roberts, David S. Weissbrodt.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- 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 -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments