Citizenship as a Human Right

This book examines a stringent problem of current migration societieswhether 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.

Autorentext

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.

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt
INTRODUCTION.- Chapter 1 Conceptual evolution.- Chapter 2 International law of citizenship.- Chapter 3 Transnational citizenship.- Chapter 4 European Citizenship 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