Citizenship and nationality law

Large-scale migration constitutes an unavoidable social reality within the European Union.

States restrict immigration on a massive scale.

This highly topical book demonstrates the theoretical and practical importance of the study of migration law.

In Islands of Sovereignty, anthropologist and legal scholar Jeffrey S.

Freedom of expression is a fundamental right at the heart of any democratic society.

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Asylum, Welfare and the Cosmopolitan Ideal: A Sociology of Rights puts forward the argument that rights must be understood as part of a social process: a terrain for strategies of inclusion and exclusion but also of contestation and negotiation.

Calls attention to and analyzes the plight of people who cannot exercise full citizenship due to evidentiary deficiencies.

Research on migration has often focused on push and pull factors; and on the mobilities which drive migration.

This book makes the legal and political case for Indigenous constitutional recognition through a constitutionally guaranteed First Nations voice, as advocated by the historic Uluru Statement from the Heart.

This book focuses on border deaths at sea.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

Since 2005, approximately 70,000 asylum-seeking refugees from Sudan and Eritrea have entered Israel.

Regulating the International Movement of Women interrogates the complex relationship between the state and the normative regulation of women who cross national borders.

Leading experts in EU constitutional law examine the foundational importance of citizenship rights in delimiting the scope of EU law.

In Citizenship Beyond Nationality, Luicy Pedroza considers immigrants who have settled in democracies and who live indistinguishably from citizensworking, paying taxes, making social contributions, and attending schoolsyet lack the status, gained either through birthright or naturalization, that would give them full electoral rights.

Western societies are immersed in debates about immigration and illegality.

It is widely assumed that internal power-sharing is a viable democratic means of managing inter-communal conflict in divided societies.

Why have countries increasingly restricted immigration even when they have opened their markets to foreign competition through trade or allowed their firms to move jobs overseas?

Law can be looked at from both an internal legal perspective - reflected in the official discourse supporting legal decisions - and an external perspective - which is pursued by studies that look at the law from the outside as the subject of sociological, economic, or philosophical analysis.

The relationship between culture and the law has become an emergent concern within contemporary Cultural Studies as a field, but the recent focus has been largely limited to the role played by cultural representations and identity politics in the legitimation of legal discourse and policies.

Contrary to predictions that it would become increasingly redundant in a globalizing world, citizenship is back with a vengeance.

This book offers an empirical analysis of recent pro- and anti-immigration lawmaking at state and local levels in the USA.

The right to free movement is the one privilege that EU citizens value the most in the Union, but one that has also created much political controversy in recent years, as the debates preceding the 2016 Brexit referendum aptly illustrate.

Examines the role of progressive Muslim intellectuals in the Pakistan movement through the lens of censorship.

The phenomenon of migration has occurred in all continents throughout the history of humanity.

This book assesses the balancing act between EU free movement law, fundamental EU objectives and Member States' concerns regarding their welfare systems.

The relationship between Canada's Indigenous peoples and the Canadian government is one that has increasingly come to the fore.

This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from the United States, the Middle East, and North Africa, to discuss and critically analyze the intersection of gender and human rights laws as applied to individuals of Arab descent.

In 1914 the British-built and Japanese-owned steamship Komagata Maru left Hong Kong for Vancouver carrying 376 Punjabi migrants.

Highlighting the ways that digital media can be used in interdisciplinary curriculum, Images and Identity brings together ideas from art and citizenship teachers in the Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Malta, Portugal and the United Kingdom on producing online curriculum materials.

Citizenship within our current international system signifies being fully human, or being worthy of fundamental human rights.

This book brings together contributions from some of the leading authorities in the field of EU immigration and asylum law to reflect upon developments since the Amsterdam Treaty and, particularly, the Tampere European Council in 1999.

How the UK's immigration detention and deportation system turns people into monetized, measurable units on a supply chain In the UK's fully outsourced ';immigration detainee escorting system,' private sector security employees detain, circulate and deport foreign national citizens.

The border is one of the most urgent issues of our times.

This volume engages human rights, domestic immigration law, refugee policy in the United States, Canada, and Europe, and scholarship to examine forced migration, refugee resettlement, asylum seeker experiences, policies and programs for refugee well-being in North America and Europe.