Preface: Ace's Story ix
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction / Jacqueline Stevens 1
Part I. International and Regional Protocols: Citizenship and
Statelessness Protocols
1. Jus Soli and Statelessness: A Comparative Perspective from the
Americas / Polly J. Price 27
2. The Politics of Evidence: Roma Citizenship Deficits in Europe /
Jacqueline Bhabha 43
3. Statelessness-in-Question: Expert Testimony and the Evidentiary
Burden of Statelessness / Benjamin N. Lawrance 60
4. Reproducing Uncertainty: Documenting Contested Sovereignty and
Citizenship across the Taiwan Strait / Sara L. Friedman
81
5. What is a "Real" Australian Citizen?: Insights from Papua New
Guinea and Mr. Amos Ame / Kim Rubenstein with Jacqueline
Field 100
Part II. Official or Administrative Acts
6. To Know a Citizen: Birthright Citizenship Documents Regimes in
U.S. History / Beatrice McKenzie 117
7. From the Outside Looking In: U.S. Passports in the Borderlands /
Rachel E. Rosenbloom 132
8. Problems of Evidence, Evidence of Problems: Expanding
Citizenship and Reproducing Statelessness among Highlanders in
Northern Thailand / Amanda Flaim 147
9. Limits of Legal Citizenship: Narratives from South and Southeast
Asia / Kamal Sadiq 165
Part III. Legislatures and Court Disputes
10. American Birthright Citizenship Rules and the Exclusion of
"Outsiders" from the Political Community / Margaret D. Stock
179
11. Ivoirité and Citizenship in Ivory Coast: The Controversial
Policy of Authenticity / Alfred Babo 200
12. The Alien Who Is a Citizen / Jacqueline Stevens 217
Afterword / Daniel Kanstroom 240
References 247
Contributors 275
Index 279
Benjamin N. Lawrance is Hon. Barber B. Conable Jr. Endowed
Professor of International Studies and Professor of History and
Anthropology at Rochester Institute of Technology and the author of
Amistad's Orphans: An Atlantic Story of Children, Slavery, and
Smuggling.
Jacqueline Stevens is Professor of Political Science and founding
director of the Deportation Research Clinic in the Buffett
Institute for Global Studies at Northwestern University and the
author of States without Nations: Citizenship for Mortals.
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