Regulating membership and movement at the meso-level: citizen-making and the household registration system in East Asia

Chung, Erin Aeran; Draudt, Darcie; Tian, Yunchen

doi:10.1080/13621025.2019.1700914

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“…Kim 2019;Ng'weno and Aloo 2019). Such conversations also commonly revolve around questions of descent as states grapple with how to designate the ethno-national identity of children born to only one parent identified as belonging to a favorable ethno-national group (Laczo 2003;Collins 2011;Chung, Draudt, and Tian 2020).…”

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“…For ethnicity-based citizenship exclusion to work, the state must determine which markers of ethnic and national identity, such as language, dress, or family relations, are necessary to establish individuals’ ethno-national membership (Calavita 2000; Morning 2008; J. Kim 2019; Ng’weno and Aloo 2019). Such conversations also commonly revolve around questions of descent as states grapple with how to designate the ethno-national identity of children born to only one parent identified as belonging to a favorable ethno-national group (Laczo 2003; Collins 2011; Chung, Draudt, and Tian 2020).…”

Section: The Many Hands Of the State4: Constructing Ethno-national Me...mentioning

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“The Ancestral Line is through the Father”: The Gendered Production of Statelessness in Rural Myanmar

McAuliffe¹

2023

Law Soc. Inq.

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Myanmar’s citizenship law is stratified by ethnic membership, but, on the books, it is gender neutral. Much attention has therefore focused on ethnic discrimination codified in the law. But individuals whose ethnic identities should provide them with a legitimate claim to citizenship continue to face barriers. Why is this the case? This article examines the additional obstacles that women face legitimating their ethno-national membership and conferring citizenship on their children, despite the gender neutrality of the citizenship law. I argue that the patriarchal structure of evidentiary documentation and patrilineal understandings of ethnic membership transmission shared by village leaders operating as key gatekeepers influence which parent’s claim—father’s or mother’s—to taingyintha (Indigenous or national ethnicity) membership can strengthen or weaken an individual’s chances of obtaining citizenship. The ethno-national identity of women is not evaluated equally to that of men, challenging women’s ability to capitalize on their taingyintha identity for citizenship purposes and contributing to the reproduction of statelessness across generations. I focus on this intersection of gender and ethnicity in establishing ethno-national membership and citizenship across variation in regional geopolitical environments to expand socio-legal knowledge on how formal and informal discrimination together exacerbate inequalities beyond the letter of the law.

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“The Ancestral Line is through the Father”: The Gendered Production of Statelessness in Rural Myanmar

McAuliffe¹

2023

Law Soc. Inq.

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“…Fortunately, new research has begun moving beyond the typical Western European or Anglo models, from expatriate voting rights in sub-Saharan Africa (Wellman 2021) and cross-national studies in diasporic participation (Pogonyi 2019), to household registration systems in China (Chung et al 2020) and Southeast Asia (Cheesman 2017), to rights-based statuses in Latin America (Mayka 2019) and Africa (Manby 2018). Several research teams have taken a global perspective in their work (Boucher & Gest 2018, Vink et al 2021b).…”

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Citizenship Studies: Policy Causes and Consequences

Goodman

2023

Annu. Rev. Polit. Sci.

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This article reviews the field of citizenship studies, with attention to the causes and consequences of policy. It summarizes key findings and points of consensus across three research domains: the determinants of citizenship policy, the consequences of citizenship policy, and the consequences of citizenship, i.e., the utility of obtaining citizenship for immigrant integration. After identifying strengths and weaknesses of each, I propose new directions in research that widen the field in terms of cases and generalizable theory while also deepening the field through serious attention to approaches that center the immigrant experience. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Political Science, Volume 26 is June 2023. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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“…Chung, E., (2020), Immigration Incorporation in East Asian Democracies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.…”

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Unblocking access to citizenship in the global South: Should the process be decentralised?

Manby

Bauböck

2021

SSRN Journal

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Why is naturalisation so rare in countries of the global South, and how could access be made easier? More than one third of global migration is into low and middle income countries; three-quarters of the global refugee population is hosted by countries in Africa, Asia, or Latin America and the Caribbean. Yet few migrants and refugees in poor or middle-income countries ever get the opportunity to change their nationality and become citizens of the states where they settle. This working paper compiles contributions to a GLOBALCIT Forum debate launched by Bronwen Manby with a proposal that the problem of lack of access to naturalisation should be addressed by developing local responses rather than national ones. The Forum was co-edited by Bronwen Manby and Rainer Bauböck, and brought responses from fifteen authors considering the viability of the proposal in relation to countries in Africa, Latin America, and South and East Asia. It concludes with reflections from both editors on the critiques of the original proposal.

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Regulating membership and movement at the meso-level: citizen-making and the household registration system in East Asia

Cited by 20 publications

References 52 publications

“The Ancestral Line is through the Father”: The Gendered Production of Statelessness in Rural Myanmar

“The Ancestral Line is through the Father”: The Gendered Production of Statelessness in Rural Myanmar

Citizenship Studies: Policy Causes and Consequences

Unblocking access to citizenship in the global South: Should the process be decentralised?

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