Citizenship and nationality law

This book analyzes how over the last two decades, immigration regimes in three primary refugee-receiving states in the Global North - Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom - have engaged with allegations about witchcraft-driven violence made by asylum seekers coming from Anglophone countries across the African continent.

The book addresses the legality of indefinite detention in countries including Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada, enabling a rich cross-fertilisation of experiences and discourses.

Increasingly, European and other Western states have sought to control the movement of refugees outside their borders.

This book addresses historical issues of colonialism and race, which influenced the formation of multicultural society in Mauritius.

This book examines the link between refugee protection, duration of risk and residency rights.

This book examines how demographic changes, including low birth rates, continuing immigration and population ageing, are transforming ideas about citizenship and belonging.

This collection of essays engages with a central theme in scholarship on EU citizenship the emancipation of certain citizens, the alienation of others and seeks to expand its horizons to interrogate whether similar debates and trends can be identified in other fields of European integration.

This book focuses on border deaths at sea.

Small businesses owned by international migrants and refugees are often the target of xenophobic hostility and attack in South Africa.

This book analyzes how over the last two decades, immigration regimes in three primary refugee-receiving states in the Global North - Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom - have engaged with allegations about witchcraft-driven violence made by asylum seekers coming from Anglophone countries across the African continent.

Between Systems and Violence offers a compilation and analysis of state-level statutes targeting intimate partner violence (IPV) in immigrant and/or refugee (IMR) lives.

A succinct account of the development of American antislavery constitutionalism in the years preceding the Civil War.

In the current debates on sea migration there is a dearth of works drawing on the rule of law.

This book analyses the legal framework for refugee protection in Africa, including both refugee and human rights law as well as treaty and institutional elements.

Der Leitfaden beschreibt erstmals zusammenhängend die kommunikativen Besonderheiten und speziellen Rechtsfragen, die in betreuungsgerichtlichen Verfahren für Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund auftreten.

Legal aid for family cases in private law, mainly divorce and separation, where the state is not directly involved as it is in public law cases where there are issues of domestic violence or neglect or abuse of children, came to an abrupt end together with help for welfare and immigration cases on April 1 2013 when the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (LASPO) came into effect.

This volume in the series Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance edited by Mathieu Deflem addresses contemporary issues of policing with a focus on the characteristics of police power as a coercive force in society and its continued need for legitimacy in a democratic social order.

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

Examination of the worldwide emulation of key norms of European refugee protection through transnational processes and actors.

Written by the recognised world authority on the subject, this title remains the definitive work on British nationality law.

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

Migrant women across Asia disproportionately work in precarious, insecure, and informal employment sectors that are subject to few regulations, pay low wages, and expose women to harm, of which domestic work is among the most prevalent.

This book explores the experience of immigration enforcement for women who have been detained in immigration detention in the UK.

This book offers an international breadth of historical and theoretical insights into recent efforts to "e;decolonise"e; legal education across the world.

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.

Europe is currently experiencing a "e;refugee crisis"e;, demonstrated by millions of displaced people unseen since World War II.

Present-day Americans feel secure in their citizenship: they are free to speak up for any cause, oppose their government, marry a person of any background, and live where they chooseat home or abroad.

An in-depth look at the consequences of New York City's dramatically expanded policing of low-level offensesFelony conviction and mass incarceration attract considerable media attention these days, yet the most common criminal-justice encounters are for misdemeanors, not felonies, and the most common outcome is not prison.

Sixty years on from the signing of the Refugee Convention, forced migration and refugee movements continue to raise global concerns for hosting states and regions, for countries of origin, for humanitarian organisations on the ground, and, of course, for the refugee.

This book examines the rules governing the right to asylum in the European Union.

This invaluable resource investigates U.

In Iran entsteht seit Jahren ein protestantisches Untergrundchristentum, das die islamisch-politische Konfiguration des Staates infrage stellt.

Questions of gender have strongly influenced the development of international refugee law over the last few decades.

This book examines the politics of making and unmaking refugees at various scales by probing the contradictions between the principles of international statecraft, which focus on the national/state level approach in regulating global forced displacement, and the forces that defy this state-based approach.

This book is the quintessential guide for global citizens and their advisers, such as law firms, tax consultants, private banks and family offices.

Kampagnen sind in der Volksrepublik China ein etabliertes Mittel zur Durchsetzung von politischen und rechtlichen Zielen.

On any given day nearly 3000 foreign national citizens are detained under immigration powers in UK detention centres alone.