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This book examines a stringentproblem of current migration societies-whether or not to extend citizenship toresident migrants. Undocumented migration has been an active issue for manydecades in the USA, and became a central concern in Europe following theMediterranean migrant crisis.
In this innovative study based onthe basic principles of transnational citizenship law and the naturalizationpattern around the world, Matias purports that it is possible to determine thatno citizen in waiting should be permanently excluded from citizenship. Such aproposition not only imposes a positive duty overriding an important dimensionof sovereignty but it also gives rise to a discussion about undocumentedmigration. With its transnational law focus, and cases from publicinternational law courts, European courts and national courts, Citizenship as a Human Right: TheFundamental Right to a Specific Citizenship may be applied to virtuallyanywhere in the world.
List of contents
INTRODUCTION.-Chapter 1 - Conceptual evolution.- Chapter 2 - International law ofcitizenship.- Chapter 3 - Transnational citizenship.- Chapter 4 - EuropeanCitizenship as a form of institutional transnational citizenship.- Chapter 5 -Migrants' rights protection and migrants as citizens in waiting.- Chapter 6 -The right to citizenship.- CONCLUSION.-REFERENCES
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
