In principle, no human individual should be rendered stateless: the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights stipulates that the right to
have or change citizenship cannot be denied. In practice, the legal
claim of citizenship is a slippery concept that can be manipulated
to serve state interests. On a spectrum from those who enjoy the
legal and social benefits of citizenship to those whose right to
nationality is outright refused, people with many kinds of status
live in various degrees of precariousness within states that cannot
or will not protect them. These include documented and undocumented
migrants as well as conventional refugees and asylum seekers living
in various degrees of uncertainty. Vulnerable populations such as
ethnic minorities and women and children may find that de jure
citizenship rights are undermined by de facto restrictions on their
access, mobility, or security. The Human Right to Citizenship
provides an accessible overview of citizenship regimes around the
globe, focusing on empirical cases of denied or weakened legal
rights. Exploring the legal and social implications of specific
national contexts, contributors examine the status of labor
migrants in the United States and Canada, the changing definition
of citizenship in Nigeria, Germany, India, and Brazil, and the
rights of ethnic groups including Palestinians, Rohingya refugees
in Bangladesh, Bangladeshi migrants to India, and Roma in Europe.
Other chapters consider children's rights to citizenship, multiple
citizenships, and unwanted citizenships. With a broad geographical
scope, this volume provides a wide-ranging theoretical and legal
framework to understand the particular ambiguities, paradoxes, and
evolutions of citizenship regimes in the twenty-first century.
Contributors: Michal Baer, Kristy A. Belton, Jacqueline Bhabha,
Thomas Faist, Jenna Hennebry, Nancy Hiemstra, Rhoda E.
Howard-Hassmann, Audrey Macklin, Margareta Matache, Janet
McLaughlin, Carolina Moulin, Alison Mountz, Helen O'Nions, Chidi
Anselm Odinkalu, Sujata Ramachandran, Kim Rygiel, Nasir Uddin,
Margaret Walton-Roberts, David S. Weissbrodt.
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