Citizenship as a Human Right
Subtitle: The Fundamental Right to a Specific Citizenship
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jun 30, 2016
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781137593832
Description: This book examines a stringent problem of current migration societies--whether or not to extend citizenship to resident migrants. Undocumented migration has been an active issue for many decades in the USA, and became a central concern in Europe following the Mediterranean migrant crisis. In this innovative study based on the basic principles of transnational citizenship law and the naturalization pattern around the world, Matias purports that it is possible to determine that no citizen in waiting should be permanently excluded from citizenship. Such a proposition not only imposes a positive duty overriding an important dimension of sovereignty but it also gives rise to a discussion about undocumented migration. With its transnational law focus, and cases from public international law courts, European courts and national courts, Citizenship as a Human Right: The Fundamental Right to a Specific Citizenship may be applied to virtually anywhere in the world.
Notes: Source title: Citizenship as a Human Right: The Fundamental Right to a Specific Citizenship (Palgrave Studies in Citizenship)