Citizenship in Question : Evidentiary Birthright and Statelessness /

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...

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Other Authors: Stevens, Jacqueline, 1962- (Editor), Lawrance, Benjamin N. (Benjamin Nicholas) (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Jus soli and statelessness : a comparative perspective from the Americas / Polly J. Price
  • The politics of evidence : Roma citizenship deficits in Europe / Jacqueline Bhabha
  • Statelessness-in-question : expert testimony and the evidentiary burden of statelessness / Benjamin N. Lawrance
  • Reproducing uncertainty : documenting contested sovereignty and citizenship across the Taiwan Strait / Sara L. Friedman
  • What is a "real" Australian citizen? : insights from Papua New Guinea and Mr. Amos Ame / Kim Rubenstein with Jacqueline Field
  • To know a citizen : birthright citizenship documents regimes in U.S. history / Beatrice McKenzie
  • From the outside looking in : U.S. passports in the Borderlands / Rachel E. Rosenbloom
  • Problems of evidence, evidence of problems : expanding citizenship and reproducing statelessness among Highlanders in northern Thailand / Amanda Flaim
  • Limits of legal citizenship : narratives from South and Southeast Asia / Kamal Sadiq
  • American birthright citizenship rules and the exclusion of "outsiders" from the political community / Margaret D. Stock
  • Ivoirite and citizenship in Ivory Coast : the controversial policy of authenticity / Alfred Babo
  • The alien who Is a citizen / Jacqueline Stevens.