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In The Breach: Citizenship And Its Approximations, Susan C.B. Coutin Jan 2013

In The Breach: Citizenship And Its Approximations, Susan C.B. Coutin

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

To analyze the forms of membership that are created in the gap between formal citizenship and social belonging, this paper takes up three examples of citizenship in the breach: (1) the 1980-1992 Salvadoran civil war, in which human rights abuses perpetrated in El Salvador effectively constituted Salvadoran migrants as stateless persons, though technically they held Salvadoran citizenship; (2) informal U.S. membership claims put forward by longtime U.S. residents who were deported to El Salvador; and (3) the legal or documentary problems that emerge when legal permanent residents, some of whom immigrated to the United States from El Salvador during the …


Toward A World Migratory Regime, Raffaele Marchetti Jul 2008

Toward A World Migratory Regime, Raffaele Marchetti

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

Increasing transnationalism challenges the predominant statist treatment of migration and citizenship. Global, indeed cosmopolitan, citizenship offers an alternative to open border policies and global migratory management that focuses on the extent to which political agents are free to move and join different societies. Multilayered citizenship and multileveled political membership encourages a supranational institution dedicated to global deliberation. Such a migratory regulatory system and new admission criteria developed under the universal membership regime ensure the grant of civil, social, and political rights to all migrants.


Human Rights, U.S. Foreign Policy, And Haitian Refugees, John Scanlan, Gilburt Loescher Jan 1984

Human Rights, U.S. Foreign Policy, And Haitian Refugees, John Scanlan, Gilburt Loescher

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