Globalization and Citizenship in the Asia-Pacific - by A Davidson & K Weekley (Hardcover)

About the Book

This collection of essays by academics and activists from the Asia-Pacific region considers questions of nationality and citizenship in the countries there.

Book Synopsis

Millions of people around the Asia-Pacific region are suffering from the twin effects of globalization and exclusionary nationality laws. Some are migrant workers without rights in host countries; some are indigenous peoples who are not accorded their full rights in their own countries. Yet others are refugees escaping from regimes that have no respect for human rights. This collection of essays discusses the ways in which citizenship laws in the region might be made consistent with human dignity. It considers the connectedness of national belonging and citizenship in East and Southeast Asian and Pacific states including Australia; the impact of mass migration, cultural homogenization and other effects of globalization on notions of citizenship; and possibilities of commitment to a transnational democratic citizenship that respects cultural difference.

Review Quotes

'A far reaching and important contribution to the growing interest in the problems of citizenship in a global environment. The volume clearly identifies and debates the inherent ambiguities and contradictions of citizenship in the modern world. Although in recent years there has been a robust flurry of publications in the field of citizenship studies, few have concentrated so specifically on the Asia Pacific region. The volume contains a rich offering of papers on Malaya, Philippines, China, Tonga, New Caladonia and Pacific Islands.

Finally, the book is clearly at the cutting edge of the emerging debate about the place for and possibility of national citizenship within a framework of political globalization. There is a clear need to address the questions of human rights in relation to citizenship as a legal status within the nation-state in a globalized world where state sovereignty is being eroded.' - Brian S. Turner, Deakin University Australia

'This volume is an outstanding contribution to the international literature on Citizenship internationally. The writing is clear and accessible and many of the contributions are of the highest academic order. Anyone interested in either Citizenship or Globalization should read the book.' - Professor Wayne Hudson, National Institute for Law, Ethics and Public Affairs, Griffith University, Australia

About the Author

STEPHEN CASTLES Research Professor of Sociology and Coordinator of the Migration and Multicultural Studies Program, University of Wollongong JOHN CHESTERMAN Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at James Cook University in Queensland MARIE LISA DACANAY Manager of the Field Operations Department and Head of the Task Force for Organizational Development, Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement MARIA SERENA I. DIOKNO Professor of History at the University of the Philippines MICHAEL DODSON Chair of the United Nations Advisory Group for the Voluntary Fund for the Decade of Indigenous Peoples and a member of the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Indigenous Voluntary Fund BRAIN GALLIGAN Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre for Public Policy at the University of Melbourne GRAHAM HASSALL Associate Director of the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies and an Associate of the International Centre for Conflict Resolution at the University of Melbourne ANN-MARI JORDENS former Senior Officer in the Australian Commonwealth Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs and currently an historical consultant in Canberra MALAKAI KOLOAMATANGI MA in Political Studies from the University of Auckland LI BUYUN Deputy Director of the Human Rights Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences T. RAJAMOORTHT Senior Lawyer of the Malaysian Bar and one of the founders of the Regional Council on Human Rights in Asia SUMASY SINGIN Secretary of the Papua NewGuinea Law Reform Commission WU YUZHANG Associate Professor at the Institute of Law in Beijing