Constituting Citizenship – The Evolution of Australian Citizenship Law
ISBN: 978-1-80043-028-0, eISBN: 978-1-80043-027-3
Publication date: 9 September 2020
Abstract
The legal status of citizenship is constitutive in that it determines the boundaries of formal membership of a nation-state and, by implication, the lines of exclusion. The ways in which Australian law has defined membership over time – from subject status to citizen – provide a case study of the factors at play in understanding citizenship within a constitutional setting. We see that the constitution of citizenship may be a complex and unsettled evolutionary process.
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Acknowledgments
I thank Professor Helen Irving and the anonymous referees for their helpful comments and Meg Winton for her assistance.
Citation
Arcioni, E. (2020), "Constituting Citizenship – The Evolution of Australian Citizenship Law", Sarat, A. (Ed.) Law and the Citizen (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Vol. 84), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1059-433720200000084001
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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