Citizenship : what everyone needs to know /

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Author / Creator:	Spiro, Peter J., author.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020] ©2020
Description:	xi, 170 pages ; 21 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	What everyone needs to know What everyone needs to know.
Subject:	Citizenship. Citizenship -- United States. Citizenship. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11989358

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ISBN:	9780190917296 0190917296 9780190917302 019091730X 9780190917326 9780190917319
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Citizenship is a like the air we breathe; it's all around us but often goes unnoticed. That is not a historically ordinary situation. Citizenship was once an exceptional status, a kind of aristocracy of the ancient world in which freedom and political voice were not taken for granted. Even as the nation-state emerged as the primary form of human association, citizenship remained an anomalous status, reserved for the few who were privileged as such in republican democracies. More recently, it has been the individual marker of membership in all national communities. It is generic; almost everyone has it, hence the ubiquity that has made it sometimes unseen. Most people never change the citizenship that they are unthinkingly born into; they have no cause to consider it any more critically than their choice of parents. Insofar as citizenship during the twentieth century came to be aligned with national community on the ground and in the public imagination, there was even less reason to look at it searchingly"--
Other form:	Online version: Spiro, Peter J., Citizenship New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019. 9780190917326

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. Citizenship Through Birth
Why do states give anyone citizenship at birth?
Does being born in a country's territory entitle one to citizenship in that country?
What are the origins of territorial birthright citizenship ?
How does territorial birth citizenship relate to the Dred Scott decision?
Do all persons born in US territory enjoy US citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment?
What are the arguments for and against birthright citizenship for unauthorized immigrants?
Does the history of the Fourteenth Amendment support the extension of citizenship to the children of unauthorized immigrants?
Do people born in US territories have citizenship at birth?
What are "anchor babies"?
What is "birth tourism"?
Does a child born abroad get the parent's citizenship?
Do children born abroad have to "sign up" for citizenship?
What are "accidental Americans"?
When only one parent is a citizen, does it matter whether it is the mother or the father?
When born on an airplane or a ship, what citizenship does one have at birth?
Do noncitizen children adopted by citizen parents automatically get citizenship?
How easy is it to demonstrate entitlement to birth citizenship?
2. Naturalization
Why do countries grant anyone citizenship after birth?
What is the history of naturalization?
Have racial and religious criteria been applied to naturalization eligibility?
Do all countries require legal residency as a condition of naturalization?
Why is a period of residency usually required for naturalization?
Do some naturalization applicants get preferential treatment?
What is Israel's Law of Return?
What is the so-called citizenship test for US naturalization?
Do other countries have citizenship tests?
Are naturalization exams justifiable?
Is naturalization contingent on language facility?
Do would-be citizens have to show they are good people?
What is the citizenship oath?
If unauthorized immigrants are legalized in the United States, should they get a "path to citizenship"?
Can one buy citizenship?
Do states sometimes extend citizenship to individuals with special talents?
Does military service result in citizenship?
Can countries naturalize whomever they want?
What was the Nottebohm Case?
Do all eligible immigrants naturalize?
Who administers naturalization?
When can individuals secure citizenship on the basis of ancestry?
Is citizenship ever granted on the basis of past persecution?
How is citizenship allocated when states break apart?
What is honorary citizenship?
3. Rights and Obligations of Citizenship
What were the rights and obligations of citizenship in the ancient world?
Do noncitizens enjoy civil rights today?
In economic matters, have noncitizens been discriminated against as a matter of law?
What were "declarant aliens," and how was the status advantageous?
Are noncitizen permanent residents discriminated against for economic purposes today?
Are noncitizens eligible for public benefits such as welfare?
Can citizens be deported?
What other immigration-related benefits attach to citizenship?
Are noncitizens required to serve in the military?
Do noncitizens have to pay taxes?
What are the distinctive obligations of citizenship?
Can noncitizens vote?
Can noncitizens engage in other forms of political activity?
Do naturalized citizens have the same rights as birthright citizens?
Do governments help citizens abroad?
Do citizens abroad carry constitutional rights with them?
Do citizens in US territories have the same rights as those in the fifty states of the United States?
Can only citizens commit treason?
Do citizens abroad have to pay taxes?
Do citizens abroad get to vote?
4. Dual Citizenship
Why did states once abhor dual nationality?
How did states formerly police against dual citizenship?
How does one get dual citizenship at birth?
How does one get dual citizenship after birth?
Is the US renunciation oath enforced?
Why do people want dual citizenship?
How many people have dual citizenship?
How can one be loyal to more than one country?
What if two countries in which a person holds citizenship get into a war with each other?
Can dual citizens serve in government positions?
Does dual citizenship undermine the value of citizenship?
Why have many "sending states" embraced dual citizenship?
Are there regional variations in the acceptance of dual citizenship?
Why should states allow dual citizenship?
Does dual citizenship result in inequality?
Can one have more than two citizenships?
5. Citizenship Deprivation and Statelessness
What terms are used to describe loss of citizenship?
Why did people want a "right" to expatriate in the nineteenth century?
Did women at one time lose nationality if they married foreign men?
What was a Hansen passport?
Can termination of citizenship be used as a penalty for criminal activity?
Are there constitutional constraints on the government's power to terminate citizenship under US law?
Are individuals deprived of their citizenship against their will under current US practice?
Should countries "citizenship strip" terrorists?
Is the United States likely to adopt a terrorist expatriation law?
How is passport revocation similar to citizenship stripping?
What is denaturalization?
Are individuals free to renounce their citizenship today?
What are the causes of statelessness?
What are the more notable cases of group statelessness not involving migration?
How have states worked to combat statelessness?
Are refugee status and statelessness the same?
6. Interrogating Citizenship and Its Alternatives
Is citizenship inclusive or exclusive?
What is the "birthright lottery"?
To what extent does citizenship reflect social solidarities?
Will the presidency of Donald Trump and the rise of nationalistic political parties revive citizenship as an institution?
Is citizenship being gamed?
How is local citizenship determined?
To what extent does local citizenship represent an alternative to national citizenship?
In the United States, can states discriminate against citizens of other states?
Can local and national citizenship be decoupled?
Can one have "dual" local citizenship?
What is the significance of European Union citizenship?
How does citizenship relate to "good citizenship"?
Can citizenship translate to other forms of community?
Is "global citizenship" a meaningful aspiration?
Bibliographic Note
Index

Citizenship : what everyone needs to know /

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