TY  - BOOK
ED  - Lawrance, Benjamin N.
ED  - Stevens, Jacqueline
AB  - Citizenship is often assumed to be a clear-cut issue - either one has it or one does not. However, as the contributors to Citizenship in Question demonstrate, citizenship is not self-evident; it emerges from often obscure written records and is interpreted through ambiguous and dynamic laws. In case studies that analyze the legal barriers to citizenship rights in over twenty countries, the contributors explore how states use evidentiary requirements to create and police citizenship, often based on fictions of racial, ethnic, class, and religious differences. Whether examining the United States’ deportation of its own citizens, the selective use of DNA tests and secret results in Thailand, or laws that have stripped entire populations of citizenship, the contributors emphasize the political, psychological, and personal impact of citizenship policies.
DO  - 10.1215/9780822373483
ID  - OAPEN ID: 625272
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 945583033
KW  - History
KW  - Birth certificate
KW  - Ivory Coast
KW  - Mexico
KW  - Statelessness
KW  - Taiwan
KW  - United States
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/f554228e-91bc-4e79-9fcd-50b65dda66ed/625272.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31762
PB  - Duke University Press
PP  - Durham NC
PY  - 2017-01-03
SN  - 9780822373483
TI  - Citizenship in Question : Evidentiary Birthright and Statelessness
ER  - 
