Citizens' Rights and the Right to Be a Citizen

Citizens' Rights and the Right to Be a Citizen

Author: Ernst Hirsch Ballin

Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

Published: 2014-01-23

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 9004223207

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Ernst Hirsch Ballin discusses the significance of citizens’ rights against the backdrop of ongoing migration and urbanization in the beginning of the 21st century. The traditional view that each state has the sovereign power to give or withhold citizenship, puts the full enjoyment of human rights at risk whenever exclusion is based on differences in nationality. Citizens’ rights are the essential connecting link between human rights and life in a democratic society. Citizens have an individual right, as a citizen, to take part in the democratic process and in the structures of solidarity of the state where they are effectively at home. By recognizing everyone’s right to the citizenship of the state in which they can make these rights a reality, citizens’ rights can bridge the gap between the universality of human rights and the changing political and social settings of people’s lives. Limits on dual citizenship are counterproductive, European citizenship paves the way for transnational citizenship. "Hirsch Ballin's book is very important for academics and practitioners in the field of citizenship. It embraces the complexity of citizenship with all its academic, practical and emotional meanings. Hopefully, Hirsch Ballin's work can serve as a compass for new directions in immigration and naturalisation debates." Katja Swider in: Journal of European Integration, Vol 38. nr. 4, 2016


Citizenship as Foundation of Rights

Citizenship as Foundation of Rights

Author: Richard Sobel

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-10-26

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1107128293

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Citizenship as Foundation of Rights explains what it means to have citizen rights and how national identification requirements undermine them.


Birthright Citizens

Birthright Citizens

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.


The Human Rights of Non-citizens

The Human Rights of Non-citizens

Author: David Weissbrodt

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2008-06-19

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 0191563277

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Non-citizens include asylum seekers, rejected asylum seekers, immigrants, non-immigrants, migrant workers, refugees, stateless persons, and trafficked persons. This book argues that regardless of their citizenship status, non-citizens should, by virtue of their essential humanity, enjoy all human rights unless exceptional distinctions serve a legitimate State objective and are proportional to the achievement of that objective. Non-citizens should have freedom from arbitrary arrest, arbitrary killing, child labour, forced labour, inhuman treatment, invasions of privacy, refoulement, slavery, unfair trial, and violations of humanitarian law. Additionally, non-citizens should have the right to consular protection; equality; freedom of religion and belief; labour rights (for example, as to collective bargaining, workers' compensation, healthy and safe working conditions, etc.); the right to marry; peaceful association and assembly; protection as minors; social, cultural, and economic rights. There is a large gap, however, between the rights that international human rights law guarantee to non-citizens and the realities they face. In many countries, non-citizens are confronted with institutional and endemic discrimination and suffering. The situation has worsened since 11 September 2001, as several governments have detained or otherwise violated the rights of non-citizens in response to fears of terrorism. This book attempts to understand and respond to the challenges of international human rights law guarantees for non-citizens human rights.


Citizens Without Rights

Citizens Without Rights

Author: John Chesterman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1997-12-22

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780521597517

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I, Citizen

I, Citizen

Author: Tony Woodlief

Publisher: Encounter Books

Published: 2021-12-07

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1641772115

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This is a story of hope, but also of peril. It began when our nation’s polarized political class started conscripting everyday citizens into its culture war. From their commanding heights in political parties, media, academia, and government, these partisans have attacked one another for years, but increasingly they’ve convinced everyday Americans to join the fray. Why should we feel such animosity toward our fellow citizens, our neighbors, even our own kin? Because we’ve fallen for the false narrative, eagerly promoted by pundits on the Left and the Right, that citizens who happen to vote Democrat or Republican are enthusiastic supporters of Team Blue or Team Red. Aside from a minority of party activists and partisans, however, most voters are simply trying to choose the lesser of two evils. The real threat to our union isn’t Red vs. Blue America, it’s the quiet collusion within our nation’s political class to take away that most American of freedoms: our right to self-governance. Even as partisans work overtime to divide Americans against one another, they’ve erected a system under which we ordinary citizens don’t have a voice in the decisions that affect our lives. From foreign wars to how local libraries are run, authority no longer resides with We the People, but amongst unaccountable officials. The political class has stolen our birthright and set us at one another’s throats. This is the story of how that happened and what we can do about it. America stands at a precipice, but there’s still time to reclaim authority over our lives and communities.


The Rights of Others

The Rights of Others

Author: Seyla Benhabib

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-11-25

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780521538602

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The Rights of Others examines the boundaries of political community by focusing on political membership.


Conditional Citizens

Conditional Citizens

Author: Laila Lalami

Publisher: Pantheon

Published: 2020-09-22

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1524747165

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A New York Times Editors' Choice • Best Book of the Year: Time, NPR, Bookpage, L.A. Times What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book, Pulitzer Prize­­–finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S. citizen, using it as a starting point for her exploration of American rights, liberties, and protections. "Sharp, bracingly clear essays."—Entertainment Weekly 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. Lalami poignantly illustrates how white supremacy survives through adaptation and legislation, with the result that a caste system is maintained that keeps the modern equivalent of white male landowners at the top of the social hierarchy. Conditional citizens, she argues, are all the people with whom America embraces with one arm and pushes away with the other. Brilliantly argued and deeply personal, Conditional Citizens weaves together Lalami’s own experiences with explorations of the place of nonwhites in the broader American culture.


Immigrants' Rights, Citizens' Rights

Immigrants' Rights, Citizens' Rights

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.


The Right to Have Rights

The Right to Have Rights

Author: Stephanie DeGooyer

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2018-02-13

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 1784787523

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Sixty years ago, the political theorist Hannah Arendt, an exiled Jew deprived of her German citizenship, observed that before people can enjoy any of the "inalienable" Rights of Man-before there can be any specific rights to education, work, voting, and so on-there must first be such a thing as "the right to have rights". The concept received little attention at the time, but in our age of mass deportations, Muslim bans, refugee crises, and extra-state war, the phrase has become the centre of a crucial and lively debate. Here five leading thinkers from varied disciplines-including history, law, politics, and literary studies-discuss the critical basis of rights and the meaning of radical democratic politics today.