Ghost citizens : decolonial apparitions of stateless, foreign and wayward figures in law / Jamie Chai Yun Liew.
"As nationalism rages and displacement proliferates, the plight of people rendered stateless by law is both understudied and ever more urgent. In Ghost Citizens Legal scholar Jamie Chai Yun Liew explores what it means to be stateless as a shattering legal condition, a lived experience and arena...
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| Language: | English |
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Halifax ; Winnipeg :
Fernwood Publishing,
[2024]
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| Summary: | "As nationalism rages and displacement proliferates, the plight of people rendered stateless by law is both understudied and ever more urgent. In Ghost Citizens Legal scholar Jamie Chai Yun Liew explores what it means to be stateless as a shattering legal condition, a lived experience and arena of powerful struggle for genuine justice. Told through an examination of legal processes and vivid personal accounts of stateless life, Liew offers a bold and unique approach to understanding a global experience and a double oppression: of being invisible and feared in law. By tracing British colonial legal vestiges in the case study of Malaysia, Ghost Citizens shows how contemporary juridical states deploy legal and historical ideas of racial categories to create and maintain statelessness. This book challenges established norms of state recognition and calls for a discussion of new ideas, borrowed from other areas of law including Indigenous legal traditions and family law, about how we should organize our communities with more respectful relations and treatment among kin."-- |
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| Physical Description: | iv, 252 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Issued also in electronic format. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781773636665 1773636669 |