Citizenship and nationality law

Migration is one of the greatest societal challenges of our time.

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.

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

This book critically analyses the case law on EU citizenship in relation to its personal free movement rights, its status on the primary law level, and EU fundamental rights protection.

Das Jahrbuch für Migrationsrecht 2018/2019 enthält ausgewählte Referate der 15.

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.

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.

This book discusses regional and continental integration in Africa by examining the management of migration across the continent.

In this comparative study of the contemporary politics of deportation in Germany and the United States, Antje Ellermann examines the capacity of the liberal democratic state to coercively regulate individuals within its borders.

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This book explores the often neglected, but overwhelmingly common, everyday vulnerability of those who support the smooth functioning of contemporary societies: paid domestic workers.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the illicit practice of football trafficking, focusing on the exploitation of underage African players being transferred to Europe.

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

In this novel approach to law and literature, Robert Barsky delves into the canon of so-called Great Books, and discovers that many beloved characters therein encounter obstacles similar to those faced by contemporary refugees and undocumented persons.

This innovative book looks at the topic of migration through the prism of law and literature.

Le droit européen de l'asile est un domaine du droit qui se base majoritairement sur le droit international public, mais qui possède tout de même des particularités qui lui sont propres.

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

This is the first book on the landmark 1965 Immigration Act, which ended race-based immigration quotas and reshaped American demographics.

Scholars, journalists, and policymakers have long argued that the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act dramatically reshaped the demographic composition of the United States.

As more restrictive asylum policies are adopted around the world, Ghezelbash explores the implications for the international refugee protection regime.

Everything you need to become a naturalized U.

Practice issues surrounding the legal concept of capacity are of fundamental importance to social work.

The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) is grounded in the human rights perspective.

The UK has some of the largest immigration detention facilities in Europe, holding as many as 3000 individuals at any point in time.

The ease of transportation, the opening of international immigration policies, the growing refugee movements, and the increasing size of unauthorized immigrant populations suggest that immigration worldwide is a phenomenon of utmost importance to professionals who develop policies and programs for, or provide services to, immigrants.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American history.

Explores how analyses of legal processes can inform the theorization of the role of local governments in migration governance.

India Migration Report 2014 is one of the first systematic studies on contribution of diasporas in development, in countries of origin as well as destination.

Investigates how foreigners charged with capital murder in the United States are deprived of rights by police and courts.

After fleeing homophobia and threats to her life in her native El Salvador, 'Carla' was detained for two years inside the Buffalo Federal Detention Center.

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

This book addresses the ethical and practical issues at stake in the reconciliation of Indigenous and non-indigenous communities.

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.

'Noncitizenship', if it is considered at all, is generally seen only as the negation or deprivation of citizenship.

A fundamental resource for anyone interested in the long-term ramifications of the European migration crisis, this book objectively assesses how Europe's future course will be impacted by the key security, political, and economic trends and events stemming from the migration crisis.

A New Statesman 'most anticipated title of the year'Compelling.

Child migration and child movement cases are now more frequent and increasingly complex.

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.

Sanctuary Cities and Urban Struggles makes the first sustained intervention into exploring how cities are challenging the primacy of the nation-state as the key guarantor of rights and entitlements.