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Paper Citizens : How Illegal Immigrants Acquire Citizenship in Developing Countries Hardback
by Kamal (Assistant Professor of Political Science, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Un Sadiq
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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. And when they arrive in countries like India and Malaysia - which are often governed by weak and erratic bureaucracies - they are able to obtain citizenship papers fairly easily.
Sadiq breaks new ground introducing "documentary citizenship" to explain how paperwork - often falsely obtained - confers citizenship on illegal immigrants.
Once immigrants obtain documents, Sadiq writes, it is a relatively simple matter for, say, an Afghan migrant with Pakistani papers to pass himself off as a Pakistani citizen both in Pakistan and abroad.
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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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:296 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:11/12/2008
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- ISBN:9780195371222
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:296 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:11/12/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780195371222