Citizenship, Alienage, and the Modern Constitutional State: A Gendered History

Name: Citizenship, Alienage, and the Modern Constitutional State: A Gendered History
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781107664234
Price: 428.74 HKD
Availability: InStock
Author: Helen Irving
ISBN: 9781107664234

By Helen Irving

Cambridge University Press May 2017

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9781107664234
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: May 2017
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Also available as

Hardback

Details

To have a nationality is a human right. But between the nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, virtually every country in the world adopted laws that stripped citizenship from women who married foreign men.

Despite the resulting hardships and even statelessness experienced by married women, it took until 1957 for the international community to condemn the practice, with the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Nationality of Married Women.

Citizenship, Alienage, and the Modern Constitutional State tells the important yet neglected story of marital denaturalization from a comparative perspective. Examining denaturalization laws and their impact on women around the world, with a focus on Australia, Britain, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United States, it advances a concept of citizenship as profoundly personal and existential. In doing so, it sheds light on both a specific chapter of legal history and the theory of citizenship in general.

Preface

Introduction

1. The emergence of modern citizenship

2. Naturalization

3. The impact of marital denaturalization

4. Marital citizenship and war

5. Marital denaturalization begins to unravel

6. The international response

7. What is a citizen?

Bibliography.

HKD 428.74 −3%

HKD 442.00