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Britishness, belonging and citizenship Devyani Prabhat

Britishness, belonging and citizenship By Devyani Prabhat

Britishness, belonging and citizenship by Devyani Prabhat


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Summary

Long term resident migrants to the UK still face significant barriers to citizenship. Dr Prabhat captures the experiences of those who successfully become British citizens through stories of belonging, citizenship, and the law. The book illuminates the gap between policy and practice in gaining British citizenship.

Britishness, belonging and citizenship Summary

Britishness, belonging and citizenship: Experiencing nationality law by Devyani Prabhat

Long term resident migrants to the UK still face significant barriers to citizenship. Dr Prabhat captures the experiences of those who successfully become British citizens through stories of belonging, citizenship, and the law. The book exposes the challenges which become insurmountable for many migrants, and illuminates the gap between policy and practice in gaining British citizenship.

Britishness, belonging and citizenship Reviews

Engagingly written and addresses a very timely, and urgent, area of debate. Sarah Neal, Professor of Sociology, University of Sheffield

About Devyani Prabhat

Dr Devyani Prabhat is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Bristol Law School, UK, with legal practice experience in Constitutional law. She holds a LL.M and a PhD from New York University. At present, she researches and teaches Migration, Citizenship and Nationality from a socio-legal and comparative perspective. She supervises doctoral students researching on citizenship and migration. In 2017 she won the prestigious Peter Birks Award for Outstanding Legal Scholarship, awarded by the Society of Legal Scholars.

Table of Contents

Introduction to trends and concepts in British citizenship; British citizenship and migration in stories; A folkloric account of citizenship and belonging; Myths and legends: stories of struggles and disappointment; A few fairy tales? stories of success; And, they lived happily ever after? Some conclusions.

Additional information

GOR013033942
9781447344476
1447344472
Britishness, belonging and citizenship: Experiencing nationality law by Devyani Prabhat
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Policy Press
20180327
128
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