The human right to citizenship : a slippery concept

The Human Right to Citizenship provides an accessible overview of citizenship around the globe, focusing on empirical cases of denied or weakened legal rights. This wide-ranging volume provides a theoretical framework to understand the particular ambiguities, paradoxes, and evolutions of citizenship regimes in the twenty-first century.

Human rights of noncitizens / David Weissbrodt -- Statelessness : a matter of human rights / Kristy A. Belton -- Palestinian people : ambiguities of citizenship / Michal Baer -- State of stateless people : the plight of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh / Nassir Uddin -- Mobilizing against statelessness : the case of Brazilian emigrant communities / Carolina Moulin -- Natives, subjects, and wannabes : internal citizenship problems in postcolonial Nigeria / Chidi Anselm Odinkalu -- Capricious citizenship : identity, identification, and Banglo-Indians -- Sujata Ramachandran -- Are children's rights to citizenship slippery or slimy? / Jacqueline Bhabha and Margareta Matache -- How citizenship laws leave the Roma in Europe's hinterland / Helen O'nions -- Slippery slopes into illegality and the erosion of citizenship in the United States / Nancy Ann Hiemstra and Alison Mountz -- Managed into the margins : examining citizenship and human rights of migrant workers in Canada / Janet Mclaughlin and Jenna Hennebry -- Shapeshifting citizenship in Germany : expansion, erosion, and extension / Thomas Faist -- Multiple citizenships and slippery statecraft / Kim Rygiel and Margaret Walton-Roberts -- Sticky citizenship / Audrey Macklin.