Introduction: The Human Right to Citizenship

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: The Human Right to Citizenship 1
4. PART I. THE LEGAL CONTEXT
5. Chapter 1. Human Rights of Noncitizens 21
6. Chapter 2. Statelessness: A Matter of Human Rights 31
7. PART II. GROUP STATELESSNESS
8. Chapter 3. The Palestinian People: Ambiguities of Citizenship 45
9. Chapter 4. State of Stateless People: The Plight of Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh 62
10. Chapter 5. Mobilizing Against Statelessness: The Case of Brazilian Emigrant Communities 78
11. PART III. LEGISLATED LIMBO
12. Chapter 6. Natives, Subjects, and Wannabes: Internal Citizenship Problems in Postcolonial Nigeria 97
13. Chapter 7. Capricious Citizenship: Identity, Identification, and Banglo-Indians 115
14. Chapter 8. Are Children’s Rights to Citizenship Slippery or Slimy ? 130
15. Chapter 9. How Citizenship Laws Leave the Roma in Europe’s Hinterland 145
16. PART IV. LABOR MIGRANTS
17. Chapter 10. Slippery Slopes into Illegality and the Erosion of Citizenship in the United States 161
18. Chapter 11. Managed into the Margins: Examining Citizenship and Human Rights of Migrant Workers in Canada 176
19. PART V. EMERGING ISSUES AND MODELS
20. Chapter 12. Shapeshifting Citizenship in Germany: Expansion, Erosion, and Extension 193
21. Chapter 13. Multiple Citizenships and Slippery Statecraft 209
22. Chapter 14. Sticky Citizenship 223
23. Conclusion: Slippery Citizenship and Retrenching Rights 240
24. Notes 255
25. Contributors 295
26. Index 301
27. Acknowledgments 315