Citizenship is the only human right defined with reference to a sovereign territory.
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. Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann and Margaret Walton-Roberts (editors). The struggle over the act has happened in fits and starts and embodies larger struggles over American identity and history. In practice, the legal claim of citizenship is a slippery concept that can be manipulated to serve state interests. In practice, the legal claim of citizenship is a slippery concept that can be manipulated to serve state interests. First proposed in 2001, the DREAM Act has repeatedly been reintroduced in various forms. 316. The human right to citizenship : a slippery concept. They did not exist.¹Statelessness is a human rights problem that most people do not know exists. But the arbitrary territorializations created by the previous empires left problems that were reinforced and exacerbated by independence. Review of The Human Right to Citizenship: A Slippery Concept edited by Rhoda E. Howard-Hassman and Margaret Walton-Roberts (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015) Our right to citizenship, protected by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights , is perhaps our most fundamental (and precious) right.
This is one of the iconic illustrations of the complexities before us....Though the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) ascertains that “everyone has the right to a nationality” (art. In some cases international human rights law confers equal rights on both citizens and noncitizens.² However, since many countries do not comply with international conventions such as...©2000-2020 ITHAKA. “Being stateless—my grandfather was Russian, as was my father, even though his country of birth was Germany—I was unable to obtain any residence or work permit abroad…. The case we wish to explore here involves the gap between de jure and de facto rights access for migrant agricultural workers from the so-called Global South who work as temporary visa workers in Canada. … It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine considering itself as a Palestinian people and we came and threw them out and took their country from them.
[Margaret Walton-Roberts; Rhoda E Howard-Hassmann;] -- The Human Right to Citizenship provides an accessible overview of citizenship around the globe, focusing on empirical cases of denied or weakened legal rights. These include documented and undocumented migrants as well as conventional refugees and asylum seekers living in various degrees of uncertainty.