(Un)Credible citizen: citizenship dispossession, documents and the politics of the rule of law.
This article explores how states mobilise ideologies of the rule of law to legitimise, facilitate and obscure human rights violations, especially in the context of citizenship and migration. There is a global pattern of states using ostensibly legal means to undermine citizenship status of vulnerabl...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 50; no. 19; pp. 4867 - 4891 |
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Nov2024
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