Britishness, belonging and citizenship: Experiencing nationality law - Hardcover

Prabhat, Devyani

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1447344472 ISBN 13: 9781447344476

Publisher: Policy Press, 2018

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

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

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1447344472
• ISBN 13: 9781447344476
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160