Citizenship as a Human Right
The Fundamental Right to a Specific Citizenship
Authors: Matias, Gonçalo
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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Gonçalo Matias is the Vice Dean and Professor of Law at the Catolica School of Law where he obtained a PhD in law. He lectures on public law and published several articles and books on international migration and citizenship law. He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Georgetown University Law Centre. He was Director at the Migration’s Observatory.
- Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-6
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Conceptual Evolution
Pages 7-40
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International Law of Citizenship
Pages 41-78
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Transnational Citizenship
Pages 79-113
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European Citizenship as a Form of Institutional Transnational Citizenship
Pages 115-152
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Citizenship as a Human Right
- Book Subtitle
- The Fundamental Right to a Specific Citizenship
- Authors
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- Gonçalo Matias
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-59384-9
- DOI
- 10.1057/978-1-137-59384-9
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-59383-2
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-95524-4
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VII, 272
- Topics
