... Chapter 4 ponders the ways in which black girls were considered citizens during the Migration period. The chapter first considers black participation in the Camp Fire Girls, a national camping organization founded to prepare girls to be good citizens and strong mothers. Black women adapted...

... Evidentiary problems can cast the meaning of citizenship into question. In chapter 5, Kim Rubenstein and Jacqueline Field examine the question of what Australian citizenship is when holding the legislatively conferred status of citizen is not. The High Court of Australia in Re Minister...

... Focusing on different documents regimes in U.S. citizenship history, Beatrice McKenzie in chapter 6 reveals that applicants’ race, gender, and social class have long affected their ability to be recognized as U.S. citizens. A belief in the fraudulence of Chinese Americans’ claims to citizenship...

... The deportation of U.S. citizens as aliens is amenable to several possible explanations. Racism and errors of law enforcement unconstrained by due process provide the atmospheric background for these events but are not independent causes. Chapter 12 uses deconstruction for close readings of laws...

... Chapter 4 gives a profile of CRMOs in Japan, describing their origin, structure, membership, and testing achievements. The chapter’s emphasis is on CRMOs’ political potential, however, and it asks whether CRMOs constituted activities of neoliberal citizens, or were part of an emergent food...