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Citizenship in Africa : the Law of Belonging.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; Part I: Introduction; 1. International Law and the Right to a Nationality; 1.1. What's in a Word: Citizenship or Nationality?; 1.2. The Regulation of Nationality in International Law; 1.3. The Content of Citizenship Rights; 1.4. The Relevance of the Right to a Nationality in Africa; Part II: Empire to Independence: The Invention of Nationality in Africa; 2. Membership in the Pre-Colonial Era; 3. The European Colonial Period; 3.1. British Territories; 3.2. French Territories; 3.3. Others; 4. Transition to Independence; 4.1. The Ottoman Empire.
- 4.2. British Territories4.3. French Territories; 4.4. Others; Part III: African Nationality Laws Since Independence; 5. Trends and Patterns in Nationality Law; 5.1. Acquisition at Birth: The Balance of Jus Soli and Jus Sanguinis; 5.2. Gender Equality; 5.3. Dual Nationality; 5.4. Naturalisation; 5.5. Loss and Deprivation; 5.6. Making Sense of Legal Amendments; 6. Identification and Registration; 6.1. Proof of Nationality: The Civil/Common Law Divide; 6.2. Civil Registration; 6.3. Child Protection; 6.4. Identification and Nationality; 6.5. The Relationship Between the Formal and the Informal.
- Part IV: Country Case Studies7. Who is a Native?; 7.1. Dual Citizenship, Denationalisation and Disenfranchisement in Zimbabwe; 7.2. The 'Lebanese' of Sierra Leone; 7.3. 'Asians' and other 'others' in Kenya and Uganda; 7.4. Côte d'Ivoire's War of Conjunctions: The 'and' and the 'or'; 7.5. The Banyarwanda of Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo; 7.6. Mauritania's Efforts to Enforce a 'Nation-State'; 7.7. 'Indigeneity' in Nigeria: The Links Between Local and National; 8. State Successions Since Independence; 8.1. Eritrea/Ethiopia: State Succession and Mass Expulsion; 8.2. Sudan and South Sudan.
- 8.3. The Bakassi Peninsula8.4. The Tebu and the 'Aouzou strip' between Chad and Libya; 8.5. Other ICJ Rulings in Border Disputes; 9. Access to Citizenship for Refugees; 9.1. Former Liberian and Sierra Leonean Refugees in Guinea; 9.2. Tanzania: A Unique Offer of Citizenship to Refugees; 9.3. South Africa: The Dream Deferred; Part V: Conclusions; 10. The Importance of Nationality Law in Africa; 10.1. Categories of the Excluded and Commonalities with other Regions; 10.2. Patterns, Continuities, and Discontinuities in the Law; 10.3. The Influence of International Law.
- 10.4. The Instrumentalisation of Nationality Laws10.5. The Unintended Consequences of the Initial Frameworks for Nationality Law; 10.6. The Impact of Changes in Nationality Laws; 10.7. Marginal Citizens: The Buffer Zone; 10.8. The Importance of Recognised Nationality and the Impact of Statelessness; 11. An Agenda for Research and Reform; 11.1. Pathways to Citizenship; 11.2. Resolving the Question of Theoretical other Nationalities; 11.3. The Situation of Nomads; 11.4. Bringing Naturalisation in from the Arbitrary Cold; 11.5. The Role of Decentralised Decision-Making.