Paper Citizens: How Illegal Immigrants Acquire Citizenship in Developing Countries

Paper Citizens: How Illegal Immigrants Acquire Citizenship in Developing Countries
ISBN-10
0199888132
ISBN-13
9780199888139
Category
Political Science
Pages
296
Language
English
Published
2008-12-02
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Kamal Sadiq

Description

In this groundbreaking work, Kamal Sadiq reveals that most of the world's illegal immigrants are not migrating directly to the US, but to countries in the vast developing world, where they are able to obtain citizenship papers fairly easily. Sadiq introduces "documentary citizenship" to explain how paperwork--often falsely obtained--confers citizenship on illegal immigrants. Across the globe, there are literally tens of millions of such illegal immigrants who have assumed the guise of "citizens." Who, then, is really a citizen? And what does citizenship mean for most of the world's peoples? Rendered in vivid detail, Paper Citizens not only shows how illegal immigrants acquire false papers, but also sheds light on the consequences this will have for global security in the post 9/11 world.

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