Each chapter begins with "Abstract", in English. Eight contributions, in English. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Conditional membership: what revocation does to citizenship / Conditional membership: what revocation does to citizenship / Janie Pelabay and Rejane Senac. Deirdre Troy -- Citizenship revocation: a stress test for liberal democracy / Tom L. Boekestein and Gerard-Rene de Groot -- The politics of un-belonging: lessons from Canada's experiment with citizenship revocation / Elke Winter and Ivana Previsic -- Denaturalisation and conceptions of citizenship in the 'war on terror' / Patrick Sykes -- Simply a matter of compliance with the rules? The moralising and responsibilising function of fraud-based citizenship deprivation in France and the UK / Emilien Fargues -- The concept of allegiance in citizenship law and revocation: an Australian study / Helen Irving -- Citizenship revocation: a stress test for liberal democracy / Janie Pelabay and Rejane Senac.
Summary:
"'When States Take Rights Back' draws on contributions by international experts in history, law, political science, and sociology, offering a rare interdisciplinary and comparative examination of citizenship revocation in five countries, revealing hidden government rationales and unintended consequences. Once considered outdated, citizenship revocation - also called deprivation or denationalization - has come back to the political centre in many Western liberal states. Contributors scrutinise the positions of stakeholders (e.g. civil servants, representatives of civil society, judges, supranational institutions) and their diverse rationales for citizenship revocation (e.g. allegations of terrorism, treason, espionage, criminal behaviour, and fraud in the naturalisation process). The volume also uncovers the variety of tools that national governments have at their disposition to change existing citizenship revocation laws and policies, and the constraints that they are faced with to actually implement citizenship revocation in daily operations. Finally, contributors underscore the extraordinary severity of sanctions implied by citizenship revocation and offer a nuanced picture of the material and symbolic forms of exclusion not only for those whose citizenship is withdrawn but also for minority groups (wrongly) associated with the aforementioned allegations. Indeed, revocation policies target not merely individuals but specific collective categories, which tend to be ethno-racially constructed and attributed specific locations within the international status hierarchy of nation-states. International and interdisciplinary in scope, 'When States Take Rights Back' will be of great interest to scholars of politics, international law, sociology and political and legal history, and human rights. The chapters were originally published in 'Citizenship Studies'."--Page i.
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