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Contesting Nationalism: Global Citizenship and Chinese Identity in Hong Kong
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Global citizenship highlights that one's identity transcends national borders, whereas nationalism prioritises individuals' identification with a specific nation‐state. In the context of nation‐building, tension could arise between global citizenship and national identity.
Shen Yang
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Refuge, 2011 Drawing on Habermas’s notion of discourse ethics and agonistic democratic theory I offer an account that attempts to overcome the exclusions revealed by statelessness by appealing to the mutability and contingency of community, as well as the ...
Kiran Banerjee
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On the threshold of statelessness: Palestinian narratives of loss and erasure
The Impact of Diasporas, 2016 This article examines how Palestinians in Europe negotiate, mobilise, and/or resist, and ultimately problematise, notions of statelessness as a concept and as a marker of identity.
E. Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
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What Can the State of Nature Justify?
Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Social contract theory is one of the most popular approaches to political justification. While the state of nature account in social contract theory is generally invoked to justify the state's authority, I argue in this paper that no extant account succeeds in doing so.
Arthur (Hongyang) Yang
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Statelessness Displaced: Update on Syria’s Stateless Kurds
, 2020 This paper provides a case study update on the situation of stateless persons – specifically ajanib and maktumeen Kurds from Syria – and focuses on the forced displacement from their country of origin. It considers the protection regime in place for the many stateless Syrian Kurds now in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, as well as what more can be done to
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Studies in Social Justice, 2017 As part of the larger trend towards “securitization” of citizenship, citizenship deprivation in Canada is becoming increasingly normalized, resulting in some cases in statelessness.
Daiva Stasiulis
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Much room for change: access to surgical care for stateless individuals in Pakistan. [PDF]
Global Health, 2023 Thobani H, Shah MM, Ehsan AN, Khan S.
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Locke(d) in a Dilemma: The Problem of Territorial Authority
Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In Lockean social contract theory, the state exercises its authority over territory through property rights. The state has territorial authority over the property it and its citizens claim. This authority is legitimate when the state has the consent of the governed and effectively governs. In this paper, I argue that there is an irreconcilable
Samantha L. Fritz
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Discrimination and the human security of stateless people
Forced Migration Review, 2014 Exploring the interconnections between statelessness and discrimination offers useful insight into the multiple vulnerabilities associated with statelessness and provides a framework through which they can be addressed.
Amal de Chickera, Joanna Whiteman
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