Citizenship, Alienage, and the Modern Constitutional State
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Citizenship, Alienage, and the Modern Constitutional State

A Gendered History

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Citizenship, Alienage, and the Modern Constitutional State

A Gendered History

About this book

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.

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Topic
Law
Subtopic
Public Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Preface
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 The emergence of modern citizenship
  10. 2 Naturalisation
  11. 3 The impact of marital denaturalisation
  12. 4 Marital citizenship and war
  13. 5 Marital denaturalisation begins to unravel
  14. 6 The international response
  15. 7 What is a citizen?
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index