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Examines questions of allegiance and identity in a globalised world through the disciplines of law, politics, philosophy and psychology.
List of contents
1. Introduction: allegiance and identity in a globalised world Fiona Jenkins, Mark Nolan and Kim Rubenstein; Part I. Constitutional Legal Foundations: 2. Identity at the edge of the constitutional community Elisa Arcioni; 3. An odd partnership: identity-based constitutional claims in modern democracy Vito Breda; 4. Reconciling regional autonomy with national sovereignty: what does China mean to Hong Kong? Simon Marsden; 5. Is Europe still worth fighting for? Allegiance, identity, and integration paradigms revisited Pablo Cristóbal Jiménez Lobeira; Part II. Indigenous and Customary Law: 6. (Em)placing law: migration, belonging and place in Solomon Islands Rebecca Monson and George Hoa'au; 7. Does law constitute identity? Indigenous allegiance and identity in Australia Asmi Wood and Jo-Anne Weinman; Part III. Social Inclusion and Exclusion: 8. Pledging allegiance: the strangers inside democracy and citizenship Fiona Jenkins; 9. When immigrants and converts are not truly one of us: examining the social psychology of marginalizing racism Michael J. Platow, Diana M. Grace and Michael J. Smithson; 10. Diversity, national identity and social cohesion: welfare redistribution and national defence Peter Balint; Part IV. National Security Concerns and Counter-terrorism Law: 11. The security of citizenship?: Finnis in the context of the United Kingdom's citizenship stripping provisions Rayner Thwaites; 12. Political criminals, terrorists and extra-criminal regimes of punishment Ben Golder and Christopher Michaelsen; 13. Dangerous intersection: migration and counter-terrorism laws in the case of Dr Mohammed Haneef Susan Harris Rimmer; Part V. Forced and Voluntary Migration of Refugees and Children: 14. Recognition and narrative identities: is refugee law redeemable? Matthew Zagor; 15. Myth-conceiving sovereignty: the legacy of the nineteenth century Eve Lester; 16. Betrayal and broken ties: British child migrants to Australia, citizenship and identity Sharon Bessell; Part VI. Temporary or Permanent Labour Migration: 17. Temporary migration, identity and allegiance Valeria Ottonelli and Tiziana Torresi; 18. Transnational labour migrants: whose responsibility? Susan Kneebone; Part VII. Transnational and International Legal Perspectives: 19. The complicated case of Stern Hu: allegiance, identity and nationality in a globalised world Joshua Neoh, Donald R. Rothwell and Kim Rubenstein; 20. The end of Olympic nationality Peter J. Spiro; 21. The perils of judicial construction of identity - a critical analysis of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia's Jurisprudence on Protected Persons Tamás Hoffman; 22. Primordialism and otherness: the 'ethnic' underpinning of 'minority' in international law Mohammad Shahabuddin; 23. The relevance of nationality in the age of Google, Skype and Facebook Rishi Gulati; 24. Concluding remarks Thomas Pogge.
About the author
Fiona Jenkins is a senior lecturer in the School of Philosophy, the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra.Mark Nolan is an associate professor at the Australian National University College of Law, Canberra.Kim Rubenstein is professor and Director of the Centre for International and Public Law, Australian National University College of Law, Canberra.
Summary
This examination of allegiance and identity renews our understanding of membership and participation within and beyond the nation-state, and provides valuable insights into the changing dynamics of national identity, membership and social inclusion in the context of globalisation.
