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...

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