Citizenship and nationality law Books

Book SynopsisPursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era provides readers with the everyday perspectives of immigrants on what it is like to try to integrate into American society during a time when immigration policy is focused on enforcement and exclusion. The law says that everyone who is not a citizen is an alien. But the social reality is more complicated. Ming Hsu Chen argues that the citizen/alien binary should instead be reframed as a spectrum of citizenship, a concept that emphasizes continuities between the otherwise distinct experiences of membership and belonging for immigrants seeking to become citizens. To understand citizenship from the perspective of noncitizens, this book utilizes interviews with more than one-hundred immigrants of varying legal statuses about their attempts to integrate economically, socially, politically, and legally during a modern era of intense immigration enforcement. Studying the experiences of green card holders, refugees, military service members, temporary workers, international students, and undocumented immigrants uncovers the common plight that underlies their distinctions: limited legal status breeds a sense of citizenship insecurity for all immigrants that inhibits their full integration into society. Bringing together theories of citizenship with empirical data on integration and analysis of contemporary policy, Chen builds a case that formal citizenship status matters more than ever during times of enforcement and argues for constructing pathways to citizenship that enhance both formal and substantive equality of immigrants.Trade Review"Ming Hsu Chen writes with great intelligence and compassion about the frightening reality of attempting to pursue citizenship in a moment when every interaction with the federal government also involves tremendous risk. She brings to life the struggle of recently arrived immigrants who want to integrate more fully into American society, even as federal policy seeks to exclude as many as possible. The complexities of constantly changing and sometimes even contradictory immigration laws are explained and the true predicaments of well-intentioned immigrants who seek only to follow the law to the best of their understanding are illuminated. Chen does a masterful job."—Helen Thorpe, author of The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in America"As much critique as corrective vision, Ming Chen's powerful book brings us revelatory conversations with immigrants seeking to become citizens. Their experiences, frustrations, and dreams shine sharp spotlights on the official barriers they face—and on our shared humanity."—Ian F. Haney López, University of California, Berkeley"Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era offers a nuanced analysis of the complex relationship between the legal status of citizenship and real belonging to U.S. society. Drawing on wide-ranging interviews, Ming Chen shows how overemphasizing immigration enforcement undermines the integration of immigrants and their potential to make society more cohesive. This is trail-blazing scholarship on how immigrants become citizens."—Hiroshi Motomura, UCLA School of Law"Chen makes a compelling case that federal government can and should do more—much more—to integrate its residents by supporting access to citizenship. With a clear-eyed picture of the functional benefits of formal citizenship, this book offers a thoughtful policy roadmap for achieving that goal."—Jennifer Chacón, UCLA School of Law"Chen here demands that we migration scholars stake a deeper claim in the changes that are needed to ensure all of our well-being.Pursuing Citizenshipis an essential read for all of us committed to accepting that challenge."—Shannon Gleeson, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books"Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era provides a powerful account of the struggles that many noncitizens and their families faced during the increased immigration enforcement of the Trump era... Chen offers a strong defense of formal citizenship, particularly in contexts where immigration enforcement is prioritized, because of its impact on one's sense of equality and community membership."—Rose Cuison-Villazor, Michigan Law ReviewTable of Contents1. Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era 2. Unequal Citizenship: Gaps in Formal and Substantive Citizenship 3. Winding Pathways to Citizenship 4. Barriers to Formal Citizenship 5. Blocked Pathways to Full Citizenship 6. Constructing Pathways to Full Citizenship

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Book SynopsisThe 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was supposed to be a stepping stone, a policy innovation announced by the White House designed to put pressure on Congress for a broader, lasting set of legislative changes. Those changes never materialized, and the people who hoped to benefit from them have been forced to navigate a tense and contradictory policy landscape ever since, haunted by these unfulfilled promises. Legal Phantoms tells their story. After Congress failed to pass a comprehensive immigration bill in 2013, President Obama pivoted in 2014 to supplementing DACA with a deferred action program (known as DAPA) for the parents of citizens and lawful permanent residents and a DACA expansion (DACA+) in 2014. But challenges from Republican-led states prevented even these programs from going into effect. Interviews with would-be applicants, immigrant-rights advocates, and government officials reveal how such failed immigration-reform efforts continue to affect not only those who had hoped to benefit, but their families, communities, and the country in which they have made an uneasy home. Out of the ashes of these lost dreams, though, people find their own paths forward through uncharted legal territory with creativity and resistance.Trade Review"Legal Phantoms is the rare book that captures both the structural and human costs imposed by America's patchwork approach to immigration. It offers richly faceted analysis of how DACA has operated, its relationship to racist crimmigration regimes, and the tolls of temporariness on recipients. This is urgent reading for anyone who is concerned with immigrant precarity."—Elizabeth Cohen, Boston University"Impressive in focus and scope and meticulously researched, Legal Phantoms renders accessible the mesmerizing complexity of the immigration system that spews temporality into immigrants' lives while humanizing those who are entangled in its web. This superb team of scholars has crafted a lasting, indispensable resource for scholars, policy makers, and anyone who cares about immigrants today."—Cecilia Menjívar, University of California-Los Angeles

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Book SynopsisPursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era provides readers with the everyday perspectives of immigrants on what it is like to try to integrate into American society during a time when immigration policy is focused on enforcement and exclusion. The law says that everyone who is not a citizen is an alien. But the social reality is more complicated. Ming Hsu Chen argues that the citizen/alien binary should instead be reframed as a spectrum of citizenship, a concept that emphasizes continuities between the otherwise distinct experiences of membership and belonging for immigrants seeking to become citizens. To understand citizenship from the perspective of noncitizens, this book utilizes interviews with more than one-hundred immigrants of varying legal statuses about their attempts to integrate economically, socially, politically, and legally during a modern era of intense immigration enforcement. Studying the experiences of green card holders, refugees, military service members, temporary workers, international students, and undocumented immigrants uncovers the common plight that underlies their distinctions: limited legal status breeds a sense of citizenship insecurity for all immigrants that inhibits their full integration into society. Bringing together theories of citizenship with empirical data on integration and analysis of contemporary policy, Chen builds a case that formal citizenship status matters more than ever during times of enforcement and argues for constructing pathways to citizenship that enhance both formal and substantive equality of immigrants.Trade Review"Ming Hsu Chen writes with great intelligence and compassion about the frightening reality of attempting to pursue citizenship in a moment when every interaction with the federal government also involves tremendous risk. She brings to life the struggle of recently arrived immigrants who want to integrate more fully into American society, even as federal policy seeks to exclude as many as possible. The complexities of constantly changing and sometimes even contradictory immigration laws are explained and the true predicaments of well-intentioned immigrants who seek only to follow the law to the best of their understanding are illuminated. Chen does a masterful job."—Helen Thorpe, author of The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in America"As much critique as corrective vision, Ming Chen's powerful book brings us revelatory conversations with immigrants seeking to become citizens. Their experiences, frustrations, and dreams shine sharp spotlights on the official barriers they face—and on our shared humanity."—Ian F. Haney López, University of California, Berkeley"Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era offers a nuanced analysis of the complex relationship between the legal status of citizenship and real belonging to U.S. society. Drawing on wide-ranging interviews, Ming Chen shows how overemphasizing immigration enforcement undermines the integration of immigrants and their potential to make society more cohesive. This is trail-blazing scholarship on how immigrants become citizens."—Hiroshi Motomura, UCLA School of Law"Chen makes a compelling case that federal government can and should do more—much more—to integrate its residents by supporting access to citizenship. With a clear-eyed picture of the functional benefits of formal citizenship, this book offers a thoughtful policy roadmap for achieving that goal."—Jennifer Chacón, UCLA School of Law"Chen here demands that we migration scholars stake a deeper claim in the changes that are needed to ensure all of our well-being.Pursuing Citizenshipis an essential read for all of us committed to accepting that challenge."—Shannon Gleeson, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books"Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era provides a powerful account of the struggles that many noncitizens and their families faced during the increased immigration enforcement of the Trump era... Chen offers a strong defense of formal citizenship, particularly in contexts where immigration enforcement is prioritized, because of its impact on one's sense of equality and community membership."—Rose Cuison-Villazor, Michigan Law ReviewTable of Contents1. Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era 2. Unequal Citizenship: Gaps in Formal and Substantive Citizenship 3. Winding Pathways to Citizenship 4. Barriers to Formal Citizenship 5. Blocked Pathways to Full Citizenship 6. Constructing Pathways to Full Citizenship

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Book SynopsisA rich, narrative exploration of the ways love defies, survives, thrives, and dies as lovers contend with US immigration policy. For mixed-citizenship couples, getting married is the easy part. The US Supreme Court has confirmed the universal civil right to marry, guaranteeing every couple's ability to wed. But the Supreme Court has denied that this right to marriage includes married couples' right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness on US soil, creating a challenge for mixed-citizenship couples whose individual-level rights do not translate to family-level protections. While US citizens can extend legal inclusion to their spouses through family reunification, they must prove their worthiness and the worthiness of their love before their relationship will be officially recognized by the state. In Unauthorized Love, Jane López offers a comprehensive, critical look at US family reunification law and its consequences as experienced by 56 mixed-citizenship American couples. These couples' stories––of integration and alienation, of opportunity and inequality, of hope and despair––make tangible the consequences of current US immigration laws that tend to favor Whiteness, wealth, and heteronormativity, as well as the individual rather than the family unit, in awarding membership and official belonging. In examining the experiences of couples struggling to negotiate intimacy under the constraints of immigration policy, López argues for a rethinking of citizenship as a family affair.Trade Review"In the public imaginary, marriage is an easy way to immigrate to the United States and one of the surest and quickest pathways to a green card. This is pure fiction. Through a deeply moving portrayal of (un)authorized love stories, López explains why. From poker game-like strategies for family reunification to the visceral experiences of absence and (dis)integration, López combines analytical clarity with ethnographic insight to illustrate the repercussions of the imagined category of individualized citizenship codified into U.S. immigration law. I have yet to read a book that so deftly—and with such grace—captures the intimate costs of the U.S. immigration system on marital relationships. If this does not convince you of the inequality perpetuated by current immigration policies, I am not sure if anything can."—Joanna Dreby, author of Everyday Illegal: When Policies Undermine Immigrant Families"While Americans may believe that love conquers all, this important, beautifully written book shows how our citizenship and immigration laws function to sever married couples, affecting children, extended families, and communities. Grounded in the lives of everyday people, it contributes to our understanding of immigration, gender and the family, and the sociology of law, and points us toward sensible and fair policy changes that could protect these vulnerable families."—Mary C. Waters, Harvard University"This remarkable study of mixed-citizen unions exposes the difficult terrain couples encounter in their attempts to earn the right to love and live together. Theoretically compelling, empirically rich, and cogently reasoned, Unauthorized Love sheds important light on the family-level consequences of reunification success, failure, and uncertainty. Powerful and enlightening."—Roberto G. Gonzales, author of Lives in Limbo"[López's] study presents compelling life stories of love and family that enrich and complicate understandings of immigration from across the US southern border in an accessible narrative. Recommended."—E. Hu-DeHart, CHOICE"Unauthorized Love: Mixed-Citizenship Couples Negotiating Intimacy, Immigration, and the State, a rich, well-argued, and luminous book by Jane Lilly López, shows how U.S. family reunification policy shapes the intimate and social lives of [mixed-citizenship] married couples. One in 13 U.S. couples must navigate a system in which policy-based definitions of legitimate relationships and deserving individuals menace the process of trying to sponsor a spouse."—Stephen P. Ruszczyk, American Journal of Sociology"The book's primary contributions to the sociological study of mixed-status families is two-fold. First, López illustrates the class dimensions of family reunification.... Second, López shows that although the immigration system ostensibly punishes individuals for individual immigration status violations, the repercussions of these punishments reverberate through an immigrant's family and broader social networks—regardless of citizenship status.... The notion that a whole family becomes unauthorized with the rejection of a noncitizen spouse is a powerful way to elucidate the shortcomings of citizenship as an individual status."—Jennifer Cook, Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Same, but Different 2. The Right Kind of Love(r) 3. Navigating the High Stakes of US Family Reunification Law 4. (Dis)Integrated Families, (Dis)Integrated Lives 5. Institutional (In)Visibility 6. Parenthetical Belonging Conclusion

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Book SynopsisA rich, narrative exploration of the ways love defies, survives, thrives, and dies as lovers contend with US immigration policy. For mixed-citizenship couples, getting married is the easy part. The US Supreme Court has confirmed the universal civil right to marry, guaranteeing every couple's ability to wed. But the Supreme Court has denied that this right to marriage includes married couples' right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness on US soil, creating a challenge for mixed-citizenship couples whose individual-level rights do not translate to family-level protections. While US citizens can extend legal inclusion to their spouses through family reunification, they must prove their worthiness and the worthiness of their love before their relationship will be officially recognized by the state. In Unauthorized Love, Jane López offers a comprehensive, critical look at US family reunification law and its consequences as experienced by 56 mixed-citizenship American couples. These couples' stories––of integration and alienation, of opportunity and inequality, of hope and despair––make tangible the consequences of current US immigration laws that tend to favor Whiteness, wealth, and heteronormativity, as well as the individual rather than the family unit, in awarding membership and official belonging. In examining the experiences of couples struggling to negotiate intimacy under the constraints of immigration policy, López argues for a rethinking of citizenship as a family affair.Trade Review"In the public imaginary, marriage is an easy way to immigrate to the United States and one of the surest and quickest pathways to a green card. This is pure fiction. Through a deeply moving portrayal of (un)authorized love stories, López explains why. From poker game-like strategies for family reunification to the visceral experiences of absence and (dis)integration, López combines analytical clarity with ethnographic insight to illustrate the repercussions of the imagined category of individualized citizenship codified into U.S. immigration law. I have yet to read a book that so deftly—and with such grace—captures the intimate costs of the U.S. immigration system on marital relationships. If this does not convince you of the inequality perpetuated by current immigration policies, I am not sure if anything can."—Joanna Dreby, author of Everyday Illegal: When Policies Undermine Immigrant Families"While Americans may believe that love conquers all, this important, beautifully written book shows how our citizenship and immigration laws function to sever married couples, affecting children, extended families, and communities. Grounded in the lives of everyday people, it contributes to our understanding of immigration, gender and the family, and the sociology of law, and points us toward sensible and fair policy changes that could protect these vulnerable families."—Mary C. Waters, Harvard University"This remarkable study of mixed-citizen unions exposes the difficult terrain couples encounter in their attempts to earn the right to love and live together. Theoretically compelling, empirically rich, and cogently reasoned, Unauthorized Love sheds important light on the family-level consequences of reunification success, failure, and uncertainty. Powerful and enlightening."—Roberto G. Gonzales, author of Lives in Limbo"[López's] study presents compelling life stories of love and family that enrich and complicate understandings of immigration from across the US southern border in an accessible narrative. Recommended."—E. Hu-DeHart, CHOICE"Unauthorized Love: Mixed-Citizenship Couples Negotiating Intimacy, Immigration, and the State, a rich, well-argued, and luminous book by Jane Lilly López, shows how U.S. family reunification policy shapes the intimate and social lives of [mixed-citizenship] married couples. One in 13 U.S. couples must navigate a system in which policy-based definitions of legitimate relationships and deserving individuals menace the process of trying to sponsor a spouse."—Stephen P. Ruszczyk, American Journal of Sociology"The book's primary contributions to the sociological study of mixed-status families is two-fold. First, López illustrates the class dimensions of family reunification.... Second, López shows that although the immigration system ostensibly punishes individuals for individual immigration status violations, the repercussions of these punishments reverberate through an immigrant's family and broader social networks—regardless of citizenship status.... The notion that a whole family becomes unauthorized with the rejection of a noncitizen spouse is a powerful way to elucidate the shortcomings of citizenship as an individual status."—Jennifer Cook, Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Same, but Different 2. The Right Kind of Love(r) 3. Navigating the High Stakes of US Family Reunification Law 4. (Dis)Integrated Families, (Dis)Integrated Lives 5. Institutional (In)Visibility 6. Parenthetical Belonging Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was supposed to be a stepping stone, a policy innovation announced by the White House designed to put pressure on Congress for a broader, lasting set of legislative changes. Those changes never materialized, and the people who hoped to benefit from them have been forced to navigate a tense and contradictory policy landscape ever since, haunted by these unfulfilled promises. Legal Phantoms tells their story. After Congress failed to pass a comprehensive immigration bill in 2013, President Obama pivoted in 2014 to supplementing DACA with a deferred action program (known as DAPA) for the parents of citizens and lawful permanent residents and a DACA expansion (DACA+) in 2014. But challenges from Republican-led states prevented even these programs from going into effect. Interviews with would-be applicants, immigrant-rights advocates, and government officials reveal how such failed immigration-reform efforts continue to affect not only those who had hoped to benefit, but their families, communities, and the country in which they have made an uneasy home. Out of the ashes of these lost dreams, though, people find their own paths forward through uncharted legal territory with creativity and resistance.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book focuses on private sponsorship of refugees, which has slowly begun to increase the opportunities for refugees to start new lives in Europe, without putting themselves or their families at risk from perilous journeys. After contextualising the phenomenon and describing the most notable European programmes, the book argues that private sponsorship schemes characterised by naming and additionality should be further explored and trialled within Europe. Having considered the phenomenon from both theoretical and practical viewpoints, the book argues that this would be possible by balancing private sponsors' claims with state sovereignty, in matters such as welfare, integration and security.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

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Book SynopsisCan universal human rights and different national citizenship regimes ever be compatible? This book argues that they can’t, setting out a legal-philosophical critique of the tension between both. It explores whether the emergence of postnational models of citizenship that aim at decoupling human rights and citizenship succeed in overcoming tensions between the universal (multiculturalism; universal human rights; postnational values) and the particular (citizenship; borders; national values and diverse local narratives). As a result of this exploration, the author argues that it is illegitimate to speak of universal human rights, universal human dignity, or universal social justice. It is only by recognising this reality that a much needed transformation of human rights and citizenship can be undertaken in a meaningful way. This provocative and compelling work will appeal to both human rights and citizenship lawyers, as well as others involved in human rights law at NGOs, governments, international organisations – and indeed anyone with an interest in the subject of how human rights evolved and new concepts for the future.Table of ContentsTable of Legislation Introduction 1. Philosophical Roots of the Concept of Humanity I. Ancient Greek Ideas Regarding Humanity and Citizenship II. Stoic Ideas of Humanity III. The Christian Idea of Humanity IV. The Enlightenment, Abstract Humanity and Universalism V. Kant’s Conception of Humanity VI. Marx, Nietzsche and Freud: Towards a New Idea of Humanity and Political Subjectivity? 2. Foundations of Dignity and Human Rights I. Introduction II. The Human Soul in Greek Philosophy III. Dignity in the Christian Tradition IV. The Enlightenment, Kant and Human Dignity V. The Early French and US Declarations of Human Rights VI. Human Dignity in the Modern Human Rights Discourse 3. Ideas of Universal Human Rights versus Citizenship I. Introduction II. The Problem with Decoupling Human Rights and Citizenship III. Human Rights Dichotomies IV. Questioning the Universality of Human Rights 4. Ideas of World Citizenship: Attempting to Overcome the Conflict between the Exclusive and the Universal I. Introduction II. The Origins of Cosmopolitanism III. Global Citizenship and Human Rights 5. A New Framework of Global Human Rights I. Introduction II. A Postmodern Global Society without Borders? III. New Conceptions of Global Human Rights IV. A Theory of Global Human Rights Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBefore 1882, the U.S. federal government had never formally deported anyone, but that year an act of Congress made Chinese workers the first group of immigrants eligible for deportation. Over the next forty years, lawmakers and judges expanded deportable categories to include prostitutes, anarchists, the sick, and various kinds of criminals. The history of that lengthening list shaped the policy options U.S. citizens continue to live with into the present. Deportation covers the uncertain beginnings of American deportation policy and recounts the halting and uncoordinated steps that were taken as it emerged from piecemeal actions in Congress and courtrooms across the country to become an established national policy by the 1920s. Usually viewed from within the nation, deportation policy also plays a part in geopolitics; deportees, after all, have to be sent somewhere. Studying deportations out of the United States as well as the deportation of U.S. citizens back to the United States from abroad, Torrie Hester illustrates that U.S. policy makers were part of a global trend that saw officials from nations around the world either revise older immigrant removal policies or create new ones. A history of immigration policy in the United States and the world, Deportation chronicles the unsystematic emergence of what has become an internationally recognized legal doctrine, the far-reaching impact of which has forever altered what it means to be an immigrant and a citizen.Trade Review"[A] meticulous and timely monograph [that] traces the roots of the contemporary deportation regime back to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . . . . Hester's insights into the inner workings and geopolitics of deportation make an important contribution to our understanding of the history of immigration policy." * Journal of American History *"Deportation takes seriously the diplomatic requirements of a modern deportation system, and in fact, contextualizes the rise of the American deportation regime within a broader international transition from expulsion to deportation under the modern nation-state systems of documentation and international law. . . . Hester's work could hardly be more timely or important." * Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era *"In this engaging and timely book, Hester examines the historical evolution of deportation policy in the US. Through archival research and historical policy analysis, the author considers the power of deportation, the national and international policies created to administer this power, and the changing meaning of deportability...As nations around the world confront the current global migration crisis, readers will surely appreciate the author’s explanations of the long-term causes and consequences of deportation policies. Deportation makes a fine contribution to our understanding of these issues." * Choice *"Through impressive research and detailed analysis, Torrie Hester shows how the early history of deportation law and policy contributed to the world in which we now live. The author successfully shows how the incremental creation of acceptable grounds for deportation reflected an agenda of racialized nation building-an issue that is often raised in critique of the mass deportations of our own times." * Donna Gabaccia, University of Toronto *"Deportation: The Origins of U.S. Policy is a tour-de-force of U.S. policy history, detailing how deportation was born as a lawful practice in the late nineteenth century and tracking its steady expansion into the twentieth century. Moreover, it follows the story beyond U.S. borders to examine the world in which U.S. immigration was made. It is a timely and urgent work." * Kelly Lytle Hernandez, University of California, Los Angeles *

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Book SynopsisFor the decade up to 2020, the Republic of Cyprus opened a route to naturalisation and citizenship by investment for non-nationals who wanted access to the EU – many of them wealthy Russians who had profited from the post-Soviet era. The magnitude of the phenomenon is staggering. Thousands of Russian, Chinese, and other investors became Cypriots by buying properties – and therefore passports – on the island. The ‘EU passport’ became the country’s major export, and the city of Limassol changed dramatically to accommodate the skyscrapers (‘passport towers’) built on the seafront.This book shows how a national passport becomes a global commodity, and unpacks the complex implications on the ground and in the EU. It interrogates the golden passports’ right of money (jus pecuniae), which complicates existing citizenship structures associated with ancestry and territory. Examining the mobility of international elites, the ethnography contributes an original angle to migration studies, as golden passports suggest that citizenship has become a tool for the mobility of the rich. Through close engagement with the situation in Cyprus, Passport island shows how the global market for passports is tied up with economic crises, migration, property, inequality, and European politics. The book argues that the commodification of citizenship represents a new form of offshoring by other means.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The world according to jus pecuniae1 Location: On research where a Republic is (re)made2 CIPizenship: On the making of golden passports3 Makers: On the art of selling a passport4 Takers: On offshore citizens in Cyprus5 Markets: On the global economy of selling citizenshipConclusion: Propertied citizenship

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Book SynopsisIn this incisive analysis, Sredanovic compares and contrasts the experiences of citizenship and integration policies in the UK and Belgium. In-depth interviews with officials illuminate both the everyday application of approaches to citizenship and integration, and their evolution in recent years. By examining the levels of discretion that exist within the two countries’ systems, this book explores the variations within the implementation processes. The first comparative work of its kind, this book goes beyond the analysis of legislation to explore how citizenship and integration policies are applied on the frontline.Table of Contents1. Introduction Citizenship and integration: rights and inequality Cultural conformity and legal guarantees: citizenship and integration in Europe Implementation: law in action Method Contents of the book 2. Citizenship in the UK History and policy: discretion and cultural conformity Nationality Checking Services: citizenship on the territory Citizenship implementation in the Home Office Conclusion: cultural conformity, discretion and routinization 3. Nationality in Belgium History and policy: cultural conformity and the documentary approach Parquets, registers and the implementation of nationality Geographic variation Conclusion: not much discretion, but not much uniformity either 4. Integration in Belgium History and policy: separate models of integration CRIs and the implementation of integration in Wallonia The determination of individual needs Conclusion: integration, uncertainty and flexibility 5. Comparative Analyses Migration policies behind the frontline The spaces of discretion Factors of variation Conclusion: how applying the law changes it 6. Conclusions Political implications The future of citizenship and integration Policy recommendations

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Book SynopsisIn 1891, a young W. E. B. DuBois addressed the annual American Historical Association on the enforcement of slave trade laws: ""Northern greed joined to Southern credulity was a combination calculated to circumvent any law, human or divine."" One law in particular he was referring to was the Abolition Act of 1808. It was specifically passed to end the foreign slave trade. However, as Ernest Obadele-Starks shows, thanks to profiteering smugglers like the Lafitte brothers and the Bowie brothers, the slave trade persisted throughout the south for a number of years after the law was passed. Freebooters and Smugglers examines the tactics and strategies that the adherents of the foreign slave trade used to challenge the law. It reassesses the role that Americans played in the continuation of foreign slave transshipments into the country right up to the Civil War, shedding light on an important topic that has been largely overlooked in the historiography of the slave trade.Trade ReviewThis book is definitely a winner. It fills a gaping hole in the scholarly literature about a very important subject, transcending the strong inclination of historians to confine themselves to simplistic counting and literal mindedness in their use of documents and databases." - Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, professor emerita of history, Rutgers University"Obadele-Starks does a comprehensive job, impressive in its scope, following the trade as it moves west, telling the story down to and through the Civil War, dealing with its international aspects, and putting it within the context of the struggle over slavery itself. The research that supports the narrative is prodigious."" - S. Charles Bolton, professor of history, University of Arkansas, Little Rock

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Book SynopsisLos problemas relativosa la inmigración son frecuentes y bien conocidos dentro de las comunidades latinas. Y la falta de información apropiada es enorme. ¿Cómo puede legalizar su estadía en los Estados Unidos? ¿Cómo puede evitar ser deportado? ¿Cómo evitar ser encarcelado? Este libro pequeño ofrece información, consejos, testimonios y recursos de donde conseguir representación legal. También informa sobre sus derechos y responsabilidades.

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Book SynopsisThe Michigan Guidelines on the International Protection of Refugees are the result of a collective endeavor of hundreds of scholars, advocates, judges, and international officials to tackle some of the most important and challenging questions in international refugee law.

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the new elements and legal issues pertaining to immigration enforcement in the United States. Topics include the scope of prosecutorial discretion in immigration enforcement; a look at whether administrative amnesty harms our efforts to gain and maintain operational control of the borders; defining and quantifying the criminal alien population and enforcement statistics; the various authorities governing immigration detainers and key legal issues; authority of the state and local police to enforce federal immigration law; the Supreme Court''s ruling in Arizona v. United States and the implications for immigration enforcement activity by states and localities; immigration-related worksite enforcement performance measures; and border security and immigration enforcement between ports of entry.

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Book SynopsisA collection of groundbreaking investigations by Wayne Barrett, the intrepid, muckraking Village Voice journalist who exposed corruption in New York City and beyond. With piercing moral clarity and exacting rigor, Wayne Barrett tracked political corruption in the pages of the Village Voice fact by fact, document by document for 40 years. The first to report on the scams and crooked deals that fueled the rise of Donald Trump in 1979, Barrett went on to expose the shady dealings of small-time slum lords and powerful New York City politicians alike, from Ed Koch to Rudy Giuliani to Michael Bloomberg. Without Compromise is the first anthology of Barrett''s investigative work, accompanied by essays from colleagues and those he trained. In an age of lies, fog, and propaganda, when the profession of journalism is degraded by the White House and the industry is under financial threat, Barrett reminds us that facts, when clearly accumulated, are our best defense of democracy. Featuring essays by: Joe Conason Kim Phillips-Fein Errol Louis Gerson Borrero Tom Robbins Tracie McMillan Peter Noel Adam Fifield Jarrett Murphy Andrea Bernstein Jennifer Gonnerman Mac Barrett

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Book SynopsisAs nationalism and oppression of minority racialized groups proliferate globally, the plight of stateless people becomes ever more urgent. Legal scholar Jamie Liew explores what statelessness means as a shattering legal condition, lived experience and arena of powerful struggle for genuine justice.

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Book SynopsisHoping for a better life, many migrants have made the journey to South Africa and set up as informal spaza shop traders in small towns and township areas, supplying the local residents with essentials. But thriving in environments afflicted by unemployment and crime is almost impossible when armed robberies are a daily reality, protection from law enforcement is not a given, and access to justice is effectively out of reach. Engaging first-hand with small traders and the Somali communities in Khayelitsha, Kraaifontein and Philippi, Vanya Gastrow investigates the predicament of these modern-day pariahs – social and political outcasts who belong neither to the elite nor the common people, and who are frequently the focus of xenophobic anger. Tracing national-level regulatory developments in post-apartheid democratic South Africa Gastrow shines a light on how retailers have been politicised and how they have faced growing informal and formal regulatory efforts to curtail their business activities. She demonstrates how democratic and constitutional frameworks can erode in contexts of heightened nationalism, populism and economic inequality. By investigating Somali informal shopkeepers’ experiences of crime, justice and regulation in the country, the fragility of law, pluralism and democracy in South Africa is uncomfortably exposed.Table of Contents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Part I: Arrival and Reception Chapter 1 Introduction: law, justice and the pariah Chapter 2 Getting started: a tale of three cities Chapter 3 The unwelcome guest: flight and arrival in South Africa Chapter 4 Crime and the fluid migrant Chapter 5 A window on statistics opens up Chapter 6 Fortress South Africa: informal justice and control Chapter 7 Elusive justice and xenophobic crime Chapter 8 An ordinary crime: the politics of denial Part II: Regulation and Containment Chapter 9 The Masiphumelele shop threat, 2006 Chapter 10 In the shadow of Masiphumelele Chapter 11 The shifting problem and changing narratives Chapter 12 Infestation and backlash: the Soweto cleansing of 2018 Chapter 13 When reasoning rings hollow Chapter 14 The problem as legitimacy Chapter 15 Regulating trade: informality and segregation by agreement Chapter 16 When agreements fall apart Chapter 17 Legal imaginaries: trading without a licence Chapter 18 Turning to formality, 2012 Chapter 19 Formalising exclusion as the African way Part III: The Politics of Pariahdom Chapter 20 Pariahdom and bare life Chapter 21 Pariah justice Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe papers collected in this volume highlight the complex dynamic relationship between citizenship - as membership status - and the constitutional law which provides the cornerstone of all polities. It shows the many different ways in which we must use constitutional law in order fully to understand how one becomes a citizen, and what the meaning of citizenship is. Edited by a leading authority in the field, this volume contains the key works which cover national, transnational and international aspects of the topic, and the book provides a particular focus on how constitutional law constructs and upholds the range of citizenship rights.With an original introduction by the editor, this timely collection will be a valuable source of reference for students, academics and practitioners interested in citizenship and constitutional law.Trade Review‘What a treasure trove. Jo Shaw’s selection of academic literature on citizenship is a treat. Drawing from all over the globe, it will enable scholars and teachers from many disciplines working in citizenship to get a taste of its legal formulations. As a teacher and scholar of citizenship law, I’ll certainly be drawing on it!’ -- Kim Rubenstein, Australian National UniversityTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Jo Shaw PART I CITIZENSHIP AND DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTIONALISM: THEORY AND PRACTICE 1. Jean Cohen (1999), ‘Changing Paradigms of Citizenship and the Exclusiveness of the Demos’, International Sociology 14: 245-268 2. Ulrich K. Preuss (1992-1993), ‘Constitutional Powermaking for the New Polity: Some Deliberations on the Relations between Constituent Power and the Constitution’, Cardozo Law Review 14, 639-660 3. Jürgen Habermas (1998), ‘The European Nation-State: On the Past and Future of Sovereignty and Citizenship’, Public Culture 10, 397-416 4. James Tully (2008), ‘Two Meanings of Global Citizenship: Modern and Diverse’, In: Michael A. Peters, Harry Blee & Alan Britton (eds.), Global Citizenship Education: Philosophy, Theory and Pedagogy, Rotterdam: Sense Publication, 15-39 5. David Abraham (2008), ‘Constitutional Patriotism,Citizenship, and Belonging’, International Journal of Constitutional Law 6, 137-152 6. Cécile Laborde (2002), ‘From Constitutional to Civic Patriotism', British Journal of Political Science, 32, 591-612 7. Martha Nussbaum (2008), ‘Toward a Globally Sensitive Patriotism’, Dædalus, 137, 78-93 PART II BECOMING CITIZEN: NATIONAL, INTERNATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL TRENDS 8. Peter Spiro (2011), ‘A New International Law of Citizenship’, American Journal of International Law, 105, 694-746 9. Patrick Weil (2011), ‘From Conditional to Secured and Sovereign: The New Strategic Link Between the Citizen and the Nation-state in a Globalized World’, International Journal of Constitutional Law, 9, 615-635 10. Rainer Bauböck (2010), ‘Studying Citizenship Constellations’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 36, 847-859 11. Szabolcs Pogonyi (2011), ‘Dual Citizenship and Sovereignty’, Nationalities Papers: The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity, 39 685-704 12. Costica Dumbrava (2014), ‘External Citizenship in EU Countries,’ Ethnic and Racial Studies, 37, 2340-2360 13. Ayelet Shachar and Ran Hirschl (2007), ‘Citizenship as Inherited Property’, Political Theory, 35, 253-287 PART III BEING CITIZEN: NATIONAL CASE STUDIES 14. Linda Bosniak (2010), ‘Persons and Citizens in Constitutional Thought’, International Journal of Constitutional Law 8, 9-29 15. Michelle Everson (2003), ‘’Subjects’, or ‘Citizens of Erewhon’? Law and Non-Law in the Development of a ‘British Citizenship’’, Citizenship Studies 7, 57-83 16. Iseult Honohan (2010), ‘Citizenship Attribution in a New Country of Immigration: Ireland’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 36, 811-827 17. Enikő Horváth and Ruth Rubio-Marín (2010), ‘”Alles oder Nichts”? The Outer Boundaries of the German Citizenship Debate’, International Journal of Constitutional Law 8, 72-93 18. Igor Štiks (2010), ‘The Citizenship Conundrum in Post-Communist Europe: The Instructive Case of Croatia’, Europe-Asia Studies, 62, 1621-1638 19. Daphne Barak-Erez (2008), ‘Israel: Citizenship and Immigration Law in the Vise of Security, Nationality, and Human Rights’ , International Journal of Constitutional Law, 6, 184-192 PART IV BEYOND STATE BORDERS – THE CITIZENSHIPS OF GLOBALISATION 20. Melissa Williams (2007), 'Non-territorial Boundaries of Citizenship', In: Seyla Benhabib, Ian Shapiro and Danilo Petranović (eds.), Identities, Allegiances, Affiliations, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 226-256 21. Theodora Kostakopoulou (2009), ‘Citizenship Goes Public: The Institutional Design of Anational Citizenship’, Journal of Political Philosophy, 17, 275-306 22. Seyla Benhabib (2009), ‘Claiming Rights across Borders: International Human Rights and Democratic Sovereignty’, American Political Science Review, 103, 691-704 23. Neil Walker (2009), ‘Denizenship and Deterritorialization in the European Union’, In: Hans Lindahl (ed.), A Right to Inclusion and Exclusion?: Normative Fault Lines of the EU's Area of Freedom, Security and Justice. Oxford: Hart, 261-72 24. Jo Shaw (2011), ‘Citizenship: Contrasting Dynamics at the Interface of Integration and Constitutionalism’, In: Paul Craig and Gráinne de Búrca (eds), The Evolution of EU Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition, 575-609 25. Ferran Requejo (1999), ‘Cultural Pluralism, Nationalism and Federalism: A Revision of Democratic Citizenship in Plurinational States’, European Journal of Political Research 35: 255–286 26. Jo Shaw (2013) ‘Citizenship and the Edges of Europe,’ in C. Franzius, F.C. Mayer and J. Neyer (eds.), Grenzen der Europäischen Union. Integration und Desintegration in Recht und Politik?, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 297-310 PART V RIGHTS, DUTIES AND STRUGGLES: THE AMBIGUOUS ROLE OF THE STATE 27. Margaret Somers (1993), ‘Citizenship and the Place of the Public Sphere: Law, Community, and Political Culture in the Transition to Democracy’, American Sociological Review, 58, 587-620 28. Lucia Zedner (2010), ‘Security, the State, and the Citizen: The Changing Architecture of Crime Control’, New Criminal Law Review, 13, 379–403 29. Christopher Bertram (2014), ‘Competing Methods of Territorial Control, Migration and Justice’, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 17, 129-143 30. Rogers M. Smith (2014), ‘National Obligations and Noncitizens: Special Rights, Human Rights, and Immigration’, Politics & Society, 42, 381-398 31. Cristina M. Rodríguez (2010), ‘Noncitizen Voting and the Extraconstitutional Construction of the Polity’, International Journal of Constitutional Law 8, 30-49 32. Jo Shaw (2009) ‘Political Rights and Multilevel Citizenship in Europe’, in E. Guild, K. Groenendijk and S. Carrera (eds.), Illiberal Liberal States: Immigration, Citizenship and Integration in the EU, Farnham, Ashgate, 29-49 33. Ruth Rubio-Marín (2014), ‘The Achievement of Female Suffrage in Europe: On Women’s Citizenship’, International Journal of Constitutional Law 12, 4-34 34. Matthew Gibney (2013), ‘Should Citizenship Be Conditional? The Ethics of Denationalization’, The Journal of Politics, 75, 646–658 35. Peter Nyers (2006), ‘The Accidental Citizen: Acts of Sovereignty and (Un)making Citizenship’, Economy and Society, 35, 22-41 Index

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Book SynopsisThis theoretically ambitious work combines analytical, institutional and critical approaches in order to provide an in-depth, panoramic and contextual account of European Union citizenship law and policy. Offering a refreshing perspective on the origins, evolution and trajectory of EU citizenship law, Dora Kostakopoulou explores recent developments, controversies and challenges, including Brexit, and fills a lacuna in the existing literature. Through an interdisciplinary approach, this insightful book combines legal studies with normative political theory, political science, sociology and critical migration studies in order to arm readers with the tools required to appreciate and understand the constructive potential and transformative effects of this fascinating and unique institution. Provocative and forward-thinking, it provides glimpses of an alternative future for EU citizenship. Students and scholars working in European law and policy, citizenship, migration and internal market law will find this book to be an engaging and timely read. Its more practical elements will also appeal to government officials, lobbyists and practitioners involved in law and policy-making, as well as to individuals working on transnational processes and globalisation.Trade Review‘This book captures both the evolution of EU citizenship since its establishment and the author's publication trajectory on citizenship. . . it provides a highly original account of EU citizenship law and policy. It shows how institutional actors and the practice of citizenship contribute to transformative change. It addresses possible future developments, while remaining faithful to the principled take on the values, principles and practices that enhance human life and (should) underlie EU citizenship as an institution. In sum, a thought-provoking book.’ -- Annette Schrauwen, European Journal of Migration and Law‘This is a vital book for our time of a new wave of nationalism.’ -- Marta Moskal, Ethnic and Racial StudieTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. European Union Citizenship: Writing the Future 2. European Union Citizenship Rights and Duties: Civil, Political and Social 3. When EU Citizens Become Foreigners 4. The External Face of EU Citizenship: Diplomatic and Consular Protection 5. EU Citizenship and Fundamental Rights 6. Brexit and EU Citizenship 7. Innovations in European Union Citizenship Law: Who Should be a Citizen of the Union Conclusion The Art of Creative Institutional Thinking: Defending the Experience of Relating and Eurozens’ Rights Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely book assesses national and supranational bilateral approaches to dealing with the rising tide of migration into the European Union via the Mediterranean Sea. International law and EU migration law specialists critically assess the legal tools adopted to engage with the 'refugee crisis'. While the EU works to develop a unified approach to Mediterranean transit and origin countries, the authors argue that a crucial role should be accorded to individual states in finding a solution to this complex and sensitive situation. Historical and political factors playing into migration strategies are discussed, and the legal framework underpinning the bilateral and regional schemes on which the northern and southern shores of the Mediterranean seek to cooperate on migration is also examined. Migration-related issues, such as search and rescue at sea, human rights and policing are explored throughout the book. Comparing the bilateral arrangements Southern EU Member States have made with the Mediterranean countries of origin and the regional bilateralism conducted by the EU, expert authors assess how best to achieve a coherent model. This will be an essential read for academics and scholars in international and European migration law, environmental politics and policy; practitioners and policymakers working on migration issues, and NGOs. Contributors include: C. Billet, M. Borraccetti, G. Borzoni, F. Casolari, M. Di Filippo, M. Gatti, I. González García, F. Ippolito, K.D. Magliveras, A. Ott, M. Ovádek, E. Papastavridis, I. Sammut, F. Seatzu, P. Van Elsuwege, J. Wouters, V. ZvezdaTrade Review‘By incorporating case studies from different countries and on different levels, this book provides a comprehensive overview over issues of migration in the Mediterranean. This comparative approach and broad perspective is a significant strength of this publication, and it allows the anthology to pinpoint central issues of migration in the Mediterranean.’ -- Lara Wilhelmine Hoffmann, Nordicum-MediterraneumTable of ContentsContents: Preface Marc Maresceau Introduction and acknowledgments Gianluca Borzoni, Federico Casolari and Francesca Ippolito Part I The national dimension of LEGAL bilateralism IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA 1 Immigration in Spain: Migratory routes, cooperation with third countries and human rights in return procedures Immaculada González García 2 The national dimension of the legal bilateralism in migration domain – The case of Greece Konstantinos Magliveras 3 A tug of war between rights and obligations – The case of migration from Malta’s perspective Ivan Sammut 4 Bilateral relations between France and its Mediterranean partners Carole Billet 5 The Italian job: Migration and bilateral relations with Southern Mediterranean countries Marco Borraccetti PART II SUPRANATIONAL FORMS OF LEGAL BILATERALISM IN MIGRATION LAW 6 Bilateral cooperation between the European Union and Mediterranean countries: An introduction to the institutional framework and key issues Jan Wouters and Michal Ovádek 7 The gendarmes of Europe. Southern Mediterranean States and the EU’s partnership framework on Migration Mauro Gatti 8 Migration and mobility in the EU’s Eastern neighbourhood: Mapping out the legal and political framework Peter Van Elsuwege and Zvezda Vankova 9 EU-Turkey cooperation in migration matters: A game changer in a multi-layered relationship? Andrea Ott PART III HORIZONTAL ISSUES IN MIGRATION MANAGEMENT 10 The unbearable ‘lightness’ of soft law: On the European Union’s recourse to informal instruments in the fight against illegal immigration Federico Casolari 11 Search and rescue at sea: Shared responsibilities in the Mediterranean Sea Efthymios Papastavridis 12 Kissing awake a sleeping beauty? The negotiation process for a Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade Area Francesco Seatzu 13 The rhetoric of human rights in EU external relation in the Mediterranean Francesca Ippolito 14 Fighting irregular forms of migration: The poisonous fruits of the securitarian approach to cooperation with Mediterranean countries Marcello Di Filippo Index

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Book Synopsis''When the exception becomes the norm, the power of the sovereign is arbitrary, just as in pre-democratic times. But such arbitrariness is not random: it is applied primarily to certain categories of what used to be called ''the lower orders'' of society - the undocumented immigrants and the racially ''other,'' regardless of prior citizenship status. The very notion of citizen becomes vague and the status can be lost through a Kafkaesque process in which the state is unfathomable and often acts behind the scenes. This book edited by Devyani Prabhat brings together academics and lawyers working in the field of nationality and immigration laws, and shows how what has long been a feature of the labor market, namely, the precarious nature of jobs, has now become a feature of basic rights of ''belonging.'' Citizenship is precarious too. The chapters in this volume lead us straight to the question: What is the rule of law in such state of indistinction? Societies in decadence, like the current Western powers, entwine retrenchment with resentment, the exceptional with the normal, the in-group with the out-group. Devyani Prabhat and her colleagues analyze with great precision the alarming advance of legal imprecision, the interests that are vested in categorical confusion, and the erosion of basic rights in societies like the UK and the US - notably the right of persons to reside in peace and without fear.' - Juan Corradi, New York University, US This innovative book considers the evolution of the contemporary issues surrounding British citizenship, integrating the social aspects and ideas of identity and belonging alongside its legal elements. With contributions from renowned lawyers and academics, it challenges the view that there are immutable values and enduring rights associated with citizenship status. The book is organised into three thematic parts. Expert contributors trace the life cycle of the citizenship process, focusing on becoming a British citizen, retaining this citizenship with its associated rights, and the potential loss of citizenship owing to immigration controls. Through a critical examination of the concepts and content of British citizenship, the premise that citizenship retracts from full membership in society in times of turmoil is questioned. Wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, Citizenship in Times of Turmoil? will be a key resource for scholars and students working within the fields of migration, citizenship and immigration law. Including details of legal practice, it will also be of benefit to practitioners.Trade Review'Devyani Prabhat has assembled an excellent team of scholars across academic disciplines and legal specialisations. The chapters provide comprehensive and expert analysis on contemporary issues of British citizenship, ranging from the shifting categories of exclusion and inclusion in nationality law, naturalisation policy and integration tests to Brexit, ''the hostile environment'' and the Windrush scandal. The book is unique in combining the theory, practices and policies of British citizenship.' --Dora Kostakopoulou, Warwick University, UK'This work offers a state of the art treatment of the law and policy on citizenship in Britain, covering access to nationality and the scope of citizenship rights. With contributions by leading scholars and practitioners of citizenship and immigration law, it provides a comprehensive account of key questions, including discrimination in nationality law, deprivation of citizenship, and the implications of in-country checks of status.' --Bernard Ryan, University of Leicester, UK'This book addresses a most timely topic - British citizenship - from all possible perspectives: practice, theory and policy and from various academic disciplines. It provides for a very welcome contribution to discussions on every day politics and on knowledge on the legal position of many different categories of immigrants. In these times of turmoil citizenship can be a basis for security and rights and therefore it is essential to examine all its dimensions carefully. This book is an indispensable aid for knowing more about British citizenship.' --Frans Pennings, Utrecht University, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: Part I MAKING BRITISH CITIZENS 1. Discrimination in British Nationality law Alison Harvey 2. The Life in the UK Citizenship Test and the Urgent Need for Its Reform Thom Brooks 3. Naturalisation and becoming a citizen in the UK Bridget Byrne 4. Children’s Pathways to British Citizenship Solange Valdez-Symonds Part II HOLDING BRITISH CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION CONTROLS 5. Citizenship, semi-citizenship and the hostile environment: the performativity of bordering practices Christopher Bertram 6. The Immigration Act 2014 and the Right to Rent David Smith Part III LOSING BRITISH CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION CONTROLS 7. The rise of modern banishment: deprivation and nullification of British citizenship Colin Yeo 8. A Constitutional Eyesore After Brexit: EU Citizenship and British Nationality Patricia Mindus 9. Remember when 'Windrush' was still just the name of a ship? Fiona Bawdon 10. The Blurred Lines of British Citizenship and Immigration Control: The Ordinary and the Exceptional Devyani Prabhat Index

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Book SynopsisThis discerning book examines EU migration and asylum polices in times of crisis by assessing old and new patterns of cooperation in EU migration management policies in the scope of third-country cooperation. The case studies explored reveal that there has been a clear tendency and strategy to move away from or go outside the decision making rules and institutional principles enshrined in the Lisbon Treaty to advance third country cooperation on migration management. It explores the implications of and effects of the adoption of extra-Treaty instruments and patterns of cooperation in the light of EU rule of law and fundamental rights principles and standards. The book, examines the ways in which the politics of migration crisis and their patterns of cooperation and legal/policy outcomes evidenced since 2015 affect and might even undermine EU's legitimacy in these policy areas. Constitutionalising the External Dimensions of EU Migration Policies in Times of Crisis will be a key resource for academics and students focussing on EU Law and migration more specifically. Timely and engaging, it will also appeal to policy- makers, legal practitioners and international organisation representatives alike.Trade Review‘The well-written introduction lays the foundation of the whole volume, which proves to be thought-provoking and cutting-edge.’ -- Kevin Fredy Hinterberger, Common Market Law Review'Whereas certain EU measures responding to the migration and asylum crisis, not least the EU Turkey ''Statement'' of March 2016, took observers by surprise, these actions are more accurately understood as part of a well-established tendency in EU cooperation with third countries on migration control. This volume offers a thought-provoking account of this tendency, pointing to its conceptual link to ''crisis labelling'' and to the constitutional challenges it poses to the Union principles of democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights.' --Jens Vedsted-Hansen, Aarhus University, Denmark'This highly topical book deals deeply with the fundamental issues raised by the external dimension of EU law in the field of migration. Combining historical and contemporary approaches, it proposes an original modelling of possible external co-operation in accordance with the rule of law. The authors are among the best specialists in these topics in Europe.' --Jean-Sylvestre Berge, Cote d Azur University and University Institute France, France'The external dimensions of EU migration policies can result in serious violations of the human rights of migrants, out of reach of EU human rights watchdogs. If the EU is to retain its reputation as a rule-based human-rights-respecting polity, such external dimensions need proper oversight and sharp critical assessment. This book provides a first and often damning evaluation of this complex policy field, but also outlines ways in which the EU could adopt a more ''comprehensive approach'' to migration policies. An essential read.' --François Crépeau, McGill University, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: 1. The external dimensions of EU migration and asylum policies in times of crisis Sergio Carrera, Juan Santos Vara and Tineke Strik PART I EU EXTERNAL MIGRATION POLICIES: NEW AND OLD DYNAMICS 2. Soft international agreements on migration cooperation with third countries: a challenge to democratic and judicial controls in the EU Juan Santos Vara 3. EU external competences on migration: which role for mixed agreements? Paula García Andrade 4. Migration deals and responsibility sharing: can the two go together? Tineke Strik 5. Non-refoulement at risk? Asylum’s disconnection mechanisms in recent EU practice Javier A. González Vega 6. Transformation or continuity? EU external migration policy in the aftermath of the migration crisis Natasja Reslow 7. Hyper-legalisation and de-legalisation in the AFSJ: on contradictions in EU external migration law Elaine Fahey PART II EU CRISIS-LED PATTERNS OF COOPERATION IN LIGHT OF EU RULE OF LAW 8. The EU’s readmission policy: of agreements and arrangements Katharina Eisele 9. The EU-Turkey deal. Reversing ‘Lisbonisation’ in EU migration and asylum policies Sergio Carrera, Leonhard den Hertog and Marco Stefan 10. The EU-Turkey Statement: legal nature and compatibility with EU institutional law Mauro Gatti and Andrea Ott 11. Insights from agreements on migration between the EU and Turkey? Kees Groenendijk 12. The EU-Jordan Compact in a Trade Law Context: Preferential Access to the EU Market to ‘Keep Refugees in the Region’ Marion Panizzon 13. Mobility partnerships: a tool for the externalisation of EU migration policy? A comparative study of Morocco and Cape Verde. Fanny Tittel-Mosser 14. Ghana and EU migration policy: studying an African response to the EU’s externalisation agenda Ilke Adam and Florian Trauner 15. The EU and the migration crisis: reinforcing a security based approach to migration? Arantza Gomez Arana and Scarlett McArdle 16. Extraterritorial immigration control, preventive justice and the rule of law in turbulent times: Lessons from the Anti-Smuggling Crusade Valsamis Mitsilegas Index

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Book SynopsisThis Research Handbook provides a panoramic guide to the study and research of EU citizenship and its development within a challenging environment characterised by restrictive access to social benefits, Brexit, Euroscepticism and Covid-19. It combines theoretical perspectives with analyses of both the existing and future rights, duties and social protection that EU citizens ought to enjoy in a democratic and principled European Union.Featuring expert contributions from scholars both within and outside the discipline of law, the Research Handbook focuses on contemporary challenges facing the EU, such as Brexit, the erosion of rights and issues of constitutional choice for the citizens and governments of Europe, and highlights the reality of incomplete implementation of EU law and the role of the Court of Justice of the EU. A wide range of topics are discussed, featuring, but not limited to, differentiation, EU citizenship and nationality, the European Pillar of Social Rights, academic freedom and restrictions in free movement of persons. The book also applies a forward thinking approach by examining the promise of EU citizenship and the institutional reforms one might envisage in the future.Offering a thought-provoking contribution to ongoing debates and studies in the fields of EU citizenship, European internal market law and policy and European integration, this Research Handbook will be key reading for researchers, academics and postgraduate students in the fields of law, political science, EU studies, and sociology.Trade Review‘This milestone Research Handbook is a must-read for researchers of the law and policy of European Union citizenship. It interrogates and recasts Union citizenship as a concept, as a vector of rights, and as a social experience; highlighting significant research questions at national, transnational and supranational levels as well as at their intersection. Its timely consideration of the implications for Union citizenship of Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic and its emphasis on enhancing relationships with the Union’s nearest neighbours have produced a collection that reflects an unsettling era of challenge and change yet remains rooted in deep legal and theoretical foundations.’ -- Niamh Nic Shuibhne, The University of Edinburgh, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: challenges and crises of Union citizenship 1 Daniel Thym PART I THEORETICAL EXPLORATIONS 2 The power of the norm: EU citizenship as constitutional right 13 Anne Wesemann 3 A social-constructivist approach towards the evolution of EU citizenship 32 Martin Steinfeld 4 The evolution of citizens’ rights in light of the EU’s constitutional development 49 Daniel Thym 5 The genesis of European rights 70 Willem Maas 6 EU citizenship: a social empathy perspective 83 Karmelia Yannakou 7 The relationship between national and EU citizenship: what is it and what should it be? 100 Martijn van den Brink PART II CITIZENS’ RIGHTS 8 Citizenship, territory and COVID-19 116 Stephen Coutts 9 The rules on the free movement of workers in the European Union 131 Adela Boitos and Manuel Kellerbauer 10 Free movement or fundamental rights? EU citizenship as a legal gateway to fundamental rights protection 149 Adrienne Yong 11 EU citizenship and family reunification: the evolving concept of a European Union territory 165 Hester Kroeze 12 Using EU citizenship to protect academic freedom: an alternative method 184 Tamas Dezso Ziegler 13 Does Member State withdrawal automatically extinguish EU citizenship? 201 Oliver Garner PART III SOCIAL CITIZENSHIP 14 EU citizenship and the welfare state 225 Francesco Costamagna and Stefano Giubboni 15 Progression and retrogression of the ECJ case law on access to social benefits 249 Ségolène Barbou des Places 16 The limits of judicialising transnational welfare progression and retrogression of the ECJ case law on access to social benefits 265 Susanne K. Schmidt 17 The outer limits of transnational solidarity between the EU’s Member States in a social security setting 282 Jaan Paju PART IV EU CITIZENSHIP POST-BREXIT: DIFFERENTIATED CITIZENSHIP REVISITED 18 Differentiated citizenship in the European Economic Area 297 Christian Franklin and Halvard Haukeland Fredriksen 19 ‘Citizenship of the Association’: the examples of Turkey and Switzerland 320 Narin Idriz and Christa Tobler 20 Employment and social rights of labour migrants post-Brexit 343 Herwig Verschueren 21 Irish citizenship law after Brexit: implications for Northern Ireland 364 Clemens M Rieder 22 Epilogue: on guest houses and institutional reconfigurations 384 Dora Kostakopoulou Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection identifies and discusses the connections between human dignity and democracy from theoretical, substantive, and comparative perspectives. Drawing on detailed analyses of national and transnational law, it provides timely insights into uses of human dignity to promote and challenge ideas of identity and solidarity. Highlighting human dignity’s significance for inclusive democracy, the book’s thirteen chapters underline how threats to human dignity can also be a danger to democracy itself. Critical analysis of the commitment to protect the dignity of all human beings following the rise of nationalism, illiberalism and identity politics are thoroughly reviewed. The volume further addresses urgent questions about today’s democratic societies in the context of Europe’s multiple crises. Written in an accessible style, this innovative book will be an excellent resource for both scholars of human dignity and human rights law, European law and politics, as well as non-experts looking to further their understanding of the topic. Trade Review‘Dignity and democracy are preferred topics of comparative constitutional research. But surprisingly enough, the connections between the two concepts have not yet been explored in academic writing. This book puts an end to that situation and opens a new perspective on two pillars of modern constitutionalism.’ -- Dieter Grimm, Humboldt University Berlin and Former Justice, Federal Constitutional Court of Germany‘An ambitious and successful effort to move the focus on constitutional democracy from citizens to human flourishing. Human Dignity and Democracy in Europe highlights the democratic and constitutional commitments to creating regimes that allow all residents to see themselves as involved in common public projects, and the threats to such commitments presented by the rise of illiberal constitutionalism, austerity, and COVID-19.’ -- Mark Graber, University of Maryland, US‘The legal relevance of dignity is challenged at a time of democratic backlash, identitarian crisis and exclusionary politics. The authors of this volume argue that dignity is both the pre-condition and ultimate aim of European democracy. They provide a balanced and realistic approach to the practical uses of dignity in law in Europe and elsewhere.’ -- András Sajó, Central European University, Hungary/Austria‘This valuable book, Human Dignity and Democracy in Europe, explores the connections between dignity and democracy, a topic that has not received much scholarly attention. Including contributions from academics of varying backgrounds who are experts in this field, it brings together a range of perspectives and offers impressive insights into this highly significant area, of especial value at the present time when in some Council of Europe states, such as Hungary, both democracy and dignity appear to be coming under threat.’ -- Helen Fenwick, Durham University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to Human Dignity and Democracy in Europe 1 Daniel Bedford and Catherine Dupré PART I THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS 1 Judicial activity/democratic activity: the democratising effects of dignity 19 Erin Daly 2 Human dignity and democracy in Europe: commitments, connections and red lines 36 Catherine Dupré 3 Subsidiarity and human dignity: democracy, authority and knowledge 60 Stephen Riley 4 Democratic transformations in the United Kingdom: the potential of human dignity 77 Daniel Bedford PART II IDENTITY 5 On the dilemma between human dignity and national identity 103 Cesare Pinelli 6 Human dignity as status politics 119 Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez 7 The right to citizenship and human dignity 137 Maria Dicosola 8 Discourses of collective dignity, the state of exception and the twilight of the rule of law: the case of Poland and beyond 155 Przemyslaw Tacik PART III SOLIDARITY 9 The decline of human dignity and solidarity through the misuse of constitutional identity: the case of Hungary since 2010 177 Gábor Halmai and Nóra Chronowski 10 Bringing human dignity back to life: the case of austerity measures in a comparative perspective 200 Antonia Baraggia 11 Dignity at the margins: the contestatory dynamic of the principle of human dignity 225 Cólm Ó Cinnéide Conclusion: human dignity and the future of European democracy 248 Gábor Halmai and Panos Kapotas Index

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Book SynopsisWeaving together theoretical, historical, and legal approaches, this book offers a fresh perspective on the concept of allegiance and its revival in recent times, identifying and contextualising its evolving association with theories of citizenship.The book explores how allegiance was historically owed in return for the sovereign’s protection but has been redeployed by modern governments to justify the withdrawal of protection. It examines allegiance from multiple perspectives, including laws for the revocation of citizenship, new ideas of citizenship education, the doctrine of treason, oaths of allegiance, naturalisation tests, and theories of belonging. This thought-provoking book ultimately finds allegiance to be a feudal concept that is inappropriate in the liberal democratic state, and is misplaced, even dangerous, in its association with modern citizenship. Rejecting allegiance, but reaching a constructive resolution, it explores modern alternatives to describe the bond between citizens, advancing a new perspective on the ‘enigma’ of belonging.With its carefully constructed analysis, this work will prove pivotal in furthering our understanding of allegiance and citizenship. Its legal–theoretical account of a complex and under-theorised concept make it valuable reading for legal and political theorists, legal historians, and scholars of citizenship, law, and social politics.Trade Review‘Focused on citizenship as legal status, Helen Irving meticulously excavates the complex past and present of allegiance in relation to the topic of citizenship. She shows us in detail how allegiance works, how it links to acquisition and loss of citizenship, and how we should think about it in relation to contested topics such as dual citizenship. Until now, there has been a gap in the literature of modern citizenship in relation to allegiance. Irving’s new book fills that gap.’ -- Jo Shaw, University of Edinburgh, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction: the origins and evolution of allegiance 2. Dual citizenship and ‘split allegiance’ 3. Naturalisation and transfer of allegiance 4. Swearing allegiance 5. Treason 6. Loss of citizenship 7. Buying citizenship 8. Conclusion: the citizenship bond Index

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Book SynopsisExploring the notion that norms are often seen as static structures governing society, politics and legislation, this thought-provoking book offers insights into Robert Alexy's theory of constitutional rights and the range in rigidity of two norm categories: rules and principles. Arguing that constitutional pluralism and the differentiation between norms is also present in EU law, Anne Wesemann asserts that EU Citizenship is a principle and thus a constitutional rights norm. Providing new perspectives on constitutionalism in the EU, this book considers the way the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) discusses and applies the EU citizenship Treaty norms by analysing the court's approach to decision making, which mirrors the balancing and weighing of conflicting principles. Wesemann proposes a new approach to constitutional analysis of the EU and its legal framework, arguing that the existence of constitutional rights norms in EU law enables this particular legal order to respond effectively to societal and political challenges within the rigidity of constitutionalism. Citizenship in the European Union will be a key resource for scholars and students of constitutional law and politics. Its contribution to the discourse around judicial activism and politicisation will also be essential reading for those studying the workings of the CJEU.Trade Review'Although the topic of European citizenship has been much discussed in academic literature and beyond for decades, Anne Wesemann manages to offer a highly original analysis of this legal status in this book. Not only is it strongly theoretically grounded on European continental legal theory, but it also offers us a new lens through which we can understand the journey of the Court of Justice of the EU on this matter. A must-read for everyone interested in EU citizenship.' --Nuno Ferreira, University of Sussex, UK'Anne Wesemann offers a welcome addition to EU theoretical analysis that draws upon Alexy's concept of principles as constitutional rights norms. Extrapolating Alexy's German model to the transnational setting, she develops citizenship as a structural norm operating as a balancing principle that requires the Court of Justice to grasp ''the art of the possible''. Her insightful reappraisal of key judgments defends the Court against charges of undue activism and instead re-interprets its stance on citizenship as legitimate constitutional evolution.' --Malcolm Ross, University of Sussex, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Constitutional Rights Theory 3. European (Pluralist) Constitutionalism 4. Citizenship 5. The Court Of Justice As Constitutional Court 6. European Union Citizenship As Constitutional Right 7. Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisThis invaluable guide focuses specifically on advertising law and the myriad rules controlling the advertising industry. It covers all aspects of the law as it affects advertising, from European legislation and copyright law to libel and obscenity laws. It clearly explains the laws, statutes and self-regulatory codes that govern advertising and there are sections given to the specific issues affecting television, radio and cinema. The new second edition takes on a more practical and user-friendly structure, with updated and expanded coverage of contract law, breach of confidence, copyright and data protection.

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