Defining British Citizenship - Empire, Commonwealth and Modern Britain (Paperback, illustrated edition)

This book explains the immigration and citizenship policies in Britain that repeatedly postponed the creation of British citizenship until 1981. It examines the alternative citizenships of British subjecthood and Commonwealth citizenship, and demonstrates how the complex rules of citizenship and immigration were devised in response to the need to build and transform those 'global institutions', the British empire and later the Commonwealth. In covering these areas, this work extends the research beyond this century. It argues that Britain's formal membership has always been attached to the global institution and that the creation of British citizenship was rejected as long as policy-makers in Britain considered it beneficial to maintain the global institution in some form. In addition to the division between the holders and non-holders of British subjecthood, there was a future division among British subjects: those in Britain and the Dominions were regarded as kith and kin, whereas those in the colonies only had the same nominal status. The affinity between those in Britain and the Dominions was institutionalised in 1914 by the common code system, whereby Dominion governments were

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	British Politics and Society
Release date:	February 2002
First published:	2003
Authors:	Rieko Karatani
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	246
Edition:	illustrated edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-7146-8298-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > Civil rights & citizenship Books > History > British & Irish history > General
LSN:	0-7146-8298-5
Barcode:	9780714682983

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