The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global Inequality
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (983 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674032713 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 290 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-06 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Three New Ideas in One Book In "The Birthright Lottery" Ayelet Shachar develops three arguments that will have a positive and profound effect on the struggle for more people to gain the legal right to migrate. The book is a series of legal arguments that are easy to follow, convincing and well footnoted. If you are interested in the immigration debate this book belongs on your shelf between Bill Ong Hing's Deporting Our Souls: Values, Morality, and Immigration Policy and Lant Pritchett's Let Their People Come: Breaking the Gridlock on Global Labor MobilityFirst Shachar shows that where one is born has significant value, that your birthright is p. Citizenship as a special kind of property inheritance ROROTOKO "The Birthright Lottery" is on the ROROTOKO list of cutting-edge intellectual nonfiction. Professor Shachar's book interview ran here as cover feature on August 28, 2009.
In The Birthright Lottery, Ayelet Shachar argues that birthright citizenship in an affluent society can be thought of as a form of property inheritance: that is, a valuable entitlement transmitted by law to a restricted group of recipients under conditions that perpetuate the transfer of this prerogative to their heirs. She deploys this fresh perspective to establish that nations need to expand their membership boundaries beyond outdated notions of blood-and-soil in sculpting the body politic. There is little doubt that securing membership status in a given state bequeaths to some a world filled with opportunity and condemns others to a life with little hope. The vast majority of the global population acquires citizenship purely by accidental circumstances of birth. Gaining privileges by such arbitrary criteria as one’s birthplace is discredited in virtually all fields o
Ayelet Shachar is Professor of Law, University of Toronto, and Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and Multiculturalism.
How, she asks, could anything based on the artificial construct of national borders be natural? A child born in one spot has a chance in the Dominican Republic. (Daniel M. Shachar is the first scholar to put the rich theory of property law to work in the realm of citizenship. Birthright citizenship is a special kind of inherited property, and a society has a right to impose restrictions and qualifications on what rights flow from the chance occurrence of "being born here." This book is an important jumping-off point not only for the immigrant rights movement, but also for all of us who would like to see the eventual dismantling of restriction on immigration, or even of all national