Citizenship, Alienage and The Modern Constitutional Sate: A Gendered History

By:

Irving, Helen

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2016.Description: xiv, 289pISBN:

978-1-107-06510-9

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DDC classification:

347.62 IRV

Summary: To have a nationality is a human right. But between the nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, virtually every country in the world adopted laws that stripped citizenship from women who married foreign men. Despite the resulting hardships and even statelessness experienced by married women, it took until 1957 for the international community to condemn the practice, with the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Nationality of Married Women.

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To have a nationality is a human right. But between the nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, virtually every country in the world adopted laws that stripped citizenship from women who married foreign men. Despite the resulting hardships and even statelessness experienced by married women, it took until 1957 for the international community to condemn the practice, with the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Nationality of Married Women.

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