Citizenship and nationality law

Winner of the Hart SLSA Book Prize 2024This book explores the narratives and experiences of people in the Global South as they encounter the impact of international law in their lives.

The book provides an in-depth discussion of democratic theory questions in relation to refugee law.

Scholars commonly take the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1789, written during the French Revolution, as the starting point for the modern conception of human rights.

This book uses a controversial criminal immigration court procedure along the Mexico-U.

This book explores the nature and scope of the provision requiring States to 'ensure respect' for international humanitarian law (IHL) contained within Common Article 1 of the 1949 Geneva Conventions.

Early one morning in 1996, the sanctuary of a Parisian church was suddenly disrupted by a police raid.

The protection of vulnerable groups varies under international human rights law.

Unaccompanied minor migrants are underage migrants, who for various reasons leave their country and are separated from their parents or legal/customary guardians.

Citizenship has come to mean legal and political equality within a sovereign nation-state; in international law, only states may determine who is and who is not a citizen.

This book presents a collection of essays on key topics and new perspectives on the EU's Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ) and has a Foreword by the President of the Court of Justice of the European Union, Prof.

Stories of non-US citizens caught in the jaws of the immigration bureaucracy and subject to indefinite detention are in the headlines daily.

The 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was supposed to be a stepping stone, a policy innovation announced by the White House designed to put pressure on Congress for a broader, lasting set of legislative changes.

Les personnes de nationalité étrangère condamnées pour une infraction pénale peuvent être renvoyées du territoire suisse en vertu d'une décision de l'autorité compétente en matière migratoire ou d'une expulsion prononcée par le juge pénal.

Getting Immigration Right focuses on what is arguably the most important aspect of the current immigration debate: how best to understand and resolve illegal immigration from Mexico.

En materia de teoría general de derechos fundamentales en la Constitución Española, a diferencia de lo que sucede en la doctrina constitucional alemana, la categoría de los derechos de defensa (Abwehrrechte) no ha tenido un excesivo éxito ni una utilización generalizada en nuestra doctrina y jurisprudencia.

The organization of human smuggling from the Middle East and Africa through Turkey and the Eastern Mediterranean has become a contemporary political concern throughout Europe, receiving intense and polarised media attention.

A rare look at the brute-force mechanics of deportation in the United States.

How do courts reconcile protecting family life with immigration control in human rights cases?

This book presents a timely and innovative exploration of one of the first human rights articles about data production and processing: the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities article 31, 'Statistics and data collection'.

China's citizenship challenge tells a story of how labour NGOs contest migrant workers' citizenship marginalisation in China.

The word 'refugee' is both evocative and contested; it means different things to different people.

A great deal has been written about the decarceration movement which involves the transfer of mental patients from the mental hospital to the community.

This book offers a zemiological approach for understanding border control practices, state power, and their social impact.

Court of Injustice reveals how immigration lawyers work to achieve just results for their clients in a system that has long denigrated the rights of those they serve.

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.

Recommended by The Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, Dame Sara Thornton, in her 2020 report on The Modern Slavery Act 2015 Statutory Defence: A call for evidence "e;Rarely can the talent of so many practitioners be accessed in one convenient resource.

In the mid-1950s, Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987), a former public school teacher, developed a citizenship training program that enabled thousands of African Americans to register to vote and then to link the power of the ballot to concrete strategies for individual and communal empowerment.

The 60th volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society edited by Austin Sarat, is an essential text for legal scholars with a unique focus on the disciplines of sociology, politics and the humanities.

With tales of a gruesome murder, a typhoid epidemic, corrupt politicians, and a Japanese invasion, The Writing on the Wall was intended to shock its readers when it was published in 1921.

In a set of cases decided at the end of the nineteenth century, the Supreme Court declared that Congress had "e;plenary power"e; to regulate immigration, Indian tribes, and newly acquired territories.

This book proposes a new solution to the problem of the migration crisis engulfing the world by creating safe harbours, or Free Global Cities.

Evaluates and reconsiders how the human rights of vulnerable migrants are protected through Europe''s supranational courts.

Traces the institutional evolution of the Supreme Court and the US Courts of Appeals by assessing how each court has treated immigration cases over time.

How the racist legacy of colonialism shapes global migrationThe Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 officially ended the explicit prejudice in American immigration policy that began with the 1790 restriction on naturalization to free White persons of "e;good character.

During the 2016 presidential campaign millions of voters, concerned about the economic impact of illegal immigration, rallied behind the notion of a border wall between the United States and Mexico.

"e;What part of illegal don't you understand?

Leading scholars and practitioners address the challenges in the adjudication of refugee claims from those fleeing violence and conflict.

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