Citizens without Nations

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Author: Maarten Prak

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-08-16

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781107504158

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Citizenship is at the heart of our contemporary world but it is a particular vision of national citizenship forged in the French Revolution. In Citizens without Nations, Maarten Prak recovers the much longer tradition of urban citizenship across the medieval and early modern world. Ranging from Europe and the American colonies to China and the Middle East, he reveals how the role of 'ordinary people' in urban politics has been systematically underestimated and how civic institutions such as neighbourhood associations, craft guilds, confraternities and civic militias helped shape local and state politics. By destroying this local form of citizenship, the French Revolution initially made Europe less, rather than more democratic. Understanding citizenship's longer-term history allows us to change the way we conceive of its future, rethink what it is that makes some societies more successful than others, and whether there are fundamental differences between European and non-European societies.

Citizens without Shelter

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Author: Leonard C. Feldman

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-07-05

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 1501727168

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One of the most troubling aspects of the politics of homelessness, Leonard C. Feldman contends, is the reduction of the homeless to what Hannah Arendt calls "the abstract nakedness of humanity" and what Giorgio Agamben terms "bare life." Feldman argues that the politics of alleged compassion and the politics of those interested in ridding public spaces of the homeless are linked fundamentally in their assumption that homeless people are something less than citizens. Feldman's book brings political theories together (including theories of sovereign power, justice, and pluralism) with discussions of real-world struggles and close analyses of legal cases concerning the rights of the homeless.In Feldman's view, the "bare life predicament" is a product not simply of poverty or inequality but of an inability to commit to democratic pluralism. Challenging this reduction of the homeless, Citizens without Shelter examines opportunities for contesting such a fundamental political exclusion, in the service of homeless citizenship and a more robust form of democratic pluralism. Feldman has in mind a truly democratic pluralism that would include a pluralization of the category of "home" to enable multiple forms of dwelling; a recognition of the common dwelling activities of homeless and non-homeless persons; and a resistance to laws that punish or confine the homeless.

Conditional Citizens

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Author: Laila Lalami

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2021-10-19

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0525436049

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A New York Times Editors' Choice • Finalist for the California Book Award • Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction • Best Book of the Year: Time, NPR, Bookpage, Los Angeles Times In this brilliantly argued and deeply personal work, Pulitzer Prize finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S.citizen, using her own story as a starting point for an exploration of the rights, liberties, and protections that are traditionally associated with American citizenship. Tapping into history, politics, and literature, she elucidates how accidents of birth—such as national origin, race, and gender—that once determined the boundaries of Americanness still cast their shadows today, poignantly illustrating how white supremacy survives through adaptation and legislation. Weaving together her experiences with an examination of the place of nonwhites in the broader American culture, Lalami illuminates how conditional citizens are all those whom America embraces with one arm and pushes away with the other.

The Rights of Non-citizens

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Author: United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Publisher: United Nations Publications

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13:

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International human rights law is founded on the premise that all persons, by virtue of their essential humanity, should enjoy all human rights. Exceptional distinctions, for example between citizens and non-citizens, can be made only if they serve a legitimate State objective and are proportional to the achievement of the objective. Non-citizens can include: migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, victims of trafficking, foreign students, temporary visitors and stateless people. This publication looks at the diverse sources of international law and emerging international standards protecting the rights of non-citizens, including international conventions and reports by UN and treaty bodies

Citizens without Borders

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Author: Brigitte Le Normand

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 148752515X

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This book examines Yugoslavia's efforts to build and maintain a relationship with its migrant workers in Western Europe through cultural and educational programs.

Immigrants' Rights, Citizens' Rights

Immigrants' Rights, Citizens' Rights PDF

Author: Sara Howell

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Published: 2014-07-15

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 1477767398

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Did you know that American laws protect all people who live in America, even people who are not citizens? This book describes in clear language the rights that citizens and non-citizens have. Learn about different ways that people become citizens, how citizenship works, and how immigration plays a role in our society today.

Property Without Rights

Property Without Rights PDF

Author: Michael Albertus

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-01-07

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1108835236

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A new understanding of the causes and consequences of incomplete property rights in countries across the world.

Offshore Citizens

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Author: Noora Lori

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-08-22

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1108498175

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This study of citizenship and migration policies in the Gulf shows how temporary residency can become a permanent citizenship status.

Birthright Citizens

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Author: Martha S. Jones

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-06-28

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1107150345

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Explains the origins of the Fourteenth Amendment's birthright citizenship provision, as a story of black Americans' pre-Civil War claims to belonging.