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Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights Ser.: Statelessness in the Caribbean : The Paradox of Belonging in a Postnational World by Kristy A. Belton (2017, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-100812249445
ISBN-139780812249446
eBay Product ID (ePID)239683967
Product Key Features
Number of Pages288 Pages
Publication NameStatelessness in the Caribbean : the Paradox of Belonging in a Postnational World
LanguageEnglish
SubjectGlobalization, Human Rights, World / Caribbean & Latin American, Social Psychology, Civics & Citizenship
Publication Year2017
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Psychology
AuthorKristy A. Belton
SeriesPennsylvania Studies in Human Rights Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight23.5 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2017-026794
Reviews" Statelessness in the Caribbean is a compelling, lucid, and timely analysis of statelessness that combines deft theoretical insights with fascinating ethnographic details. Belton argues that past and existing scholarship and advocacy on statelessness have overlooked a central and constitutive feature of the phenomenon--that the special type of 'forced displacement' associated with statelessness does not presuppose any migration, indeed any movement at all."--Jacqueline Bhabha, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Statelessness in the Caribbean is a compelling, lucid, and timely analysis of statelessness that combines deft theoretical insights with fascinating ethnographic details. Belton argues that past and existing scholarship and advocacy on statelessness have overlooked a central and constitutive feature of the phenomenon-that the special type of 'forced displacement' associated with statelessness does not presuppose any migration, indeed any movement at all., Statelessness in the Caribbean is a compelling, lucid, and timely analysis of statelessness that combines deft theoretical insights with fascinating ethnographic details. Belton argues that past and existing scholarship and advocacy on statelessness have overlooked a central and constitutive feature of the phenomenon-that the special type of 'forced displacement' associated with statelessness does not presuppose any migration, indeed any movement at all.
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SynopsisWithout citizenship from any country, more than 10 million people worldwide are unable to enjoy the rights, freedoms, and protections that citizens of a state take for granted. They are stateless and formally belong nowhere. The stateless typically face insurmountable obstacles in their ability to be self-determining agents and are vulnerable to a variety of harms, including neglect and exploitation. Through an analysis of statelessness in the Caribbean, Kristy A. Belton argues for the reconceptualization of statelessness as a form of forced displacement. Belton argues that the stateless--those who are displaced in place--suffer similarly to those who are forcibly displaced, but unlike the latter, they are born and reside within the country that denies or deprives them of citizenship. She explains how the peculiar form of displacement experienced by the stateless often occurs under nonconflict and noncrisis conditions and within democratic regimes, all of which serve to make such people's plight less visible and consequently heightens their vulnerability. Statelessness in the Caribbean addresses a number of current issues including belonging, migration and forced displacement, the treatment and inclusion of the ethnic and racial "other," the application of international human rights law and doctrine to local contexts, and the ability of individuals to be self-determining agents who create the conditions of their own making. Belton concludes that statelessness needs to be addressed as a matter of global distributive justice. Citizenship is not only a necessary good for an individual in a world carved into states but is also a human right and a status that should not be determined by states alone. In order to resolve their predicament, the stateless must have the right to choose to belong to the communities of their birth., Statelessness in the Caribbean demonstrates how people can be forcibly displaced under nonconflict conditions without having fled a home, and how democracies force people into statelessness--the condition of not being a citizen anywhere--through the cover of bureaucratic procedures, neutral laws, and sovereign claims to determine membership.
LC Classification NumberJL599.5.A92B45 2017
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