Citizenship and nationality law

Women's history emerged as a genre in the waning years of the eighteenth century, a period during which concepts of nationhood and a sense of belonging expanded throughout European nations and the young American republic.

When the United States entered World War II, Italian nationals living in this country were declared enemy aliens and faced with legal restrictions.

In this book, Mary McThomas examines how individuals can claim their own subjecthood while still evading the identity-forming powers of state surveillance.

This book prepares mental health professionals to conduct a thorough psychological assessment of individuals involved in immigration proceedings and present the results in a professional report.

This book advances the study of the right to nationality, the prevention of statelessness, and the protection of stateless persons, taking Nigeria as a case study.

A comprehensive study offering the first comparative account of the increasing dependence on expertise in the asylum and refugee status determination process.

This monograph investigates the International, European and Commonwealth Caribbean approaches to human trafficking from an Analytical Eclectic perspective.

The book's aim is to consider the impact that the introduction and development of the status of Union citizenship has had on the interpretation of the EU's market freedoms.

This book addresses the hidden dynamics of race within the European Union.

In this book, Powell examines the ways that identities are constructed in displacement narratives based on cases of eminent domain, natural disaster, and civil unrest, attending specifically to the rhetorical strategies employed as barriers and boundaries intersect with individual lives.

Gerald Neuman discusses in historical and contemporary terms the repeated efforts of U.

In The Oxford Handbook of the Politics of International Migration, leading migration experts Marc Rosenblum and Daniel Tichenor gather together 29 field specialists in an authoritative volume on the issue.

Law relating to mental disorder and to the mentally disordered has rarely been the subject of such extensive and heated debate.

Cultural Expertise and Litigation addresses the role of social scientists as a source of expert evidence, and is a product of their experiences and observations of cases involving litigants of South Asian origin.

This book presents a critical chronology of the modern slavery survivor journey in the UK, from intervention by the authorities to long-term recovery.

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.

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 made the Chinese the first immigrant group officially excluded from the United States.

Patterns of im/mobility, collective identity and conflict are highly entangled.

Policing the Borders Within offers an in-depth, comprehensive exploration of the everyday working of inland border controls in Britain, informed by extensive empirical material viewed through the lens of wide-ranging interdisciplinary debates.

This book analyzes the contemporary politics of immigration from the asylum crisis to Islamophobia, multiculturalism, and post-colonialism.

This thought-provoking collection brings together academics from a range of disciplines to examine modern slavery.

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

After some friendly pestering from six of his students curious about his thinking about immigration, a philosophy professor invites them to present their own ideas to him over a series of meetings throughout the term.

This volume explores the legal history of migration and the role played by legal theories, case law, practices, customary laws, and legislations in shaping and governing mobility between the 19th century and the Second World War.

This important collection examines deportation as an increasingly global mechanism of state control.

A recent development in the immigration policies of several European states is to make the admission of foreign nationals dependent upon criteria relating to their integration.

This book analyzes the impact of the increasing securitization of migration within the international legal and political order.

Discusses the major immigration policy areas and looks at how to address policy challenges from a perspective that considers the moral consequences of our decisions.

Public debates about the terms of membership and inclusion have intensified as developed economies increasingly rely on temporary migrant labour.

Providing a radical new approach to labour migration, this book challenges the prevailing legal and political construction of the figure of the irregular migrant labourer, whilst at the same time reimagining this irregularity as the basis of an alternative, post-capitalist, sociality.

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.

Sanctuary Practices in Perspective examines the diverse, complex, and mutating practice of providing sanctuary to asylum-seekers.

This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the effectiveness of Mobility Partnerships and their consequences for third countries.

Imperial Citizen examines the intersection between Ottoman imperialism, control of the Iraqi frontier through centralization policies, and the impact of those policies on Ottoman citizenship laws and on the institution of marriage.

The Economics of Immigration summarizes the best social science studying the actual impact of immigration, which is found to be at odds with popular fears.