This thesis traces the Jewish-American advocacy campaign of 1943 to restore the Crémieux Decree -- which the French government passed in 1870 and which granted …
Sociology tends to see modern citizenship as the result of class struggle, or as a liberal ideal, highlighting the promises of civility and integration. Often …
The main goal of this dissertation is to explore differentiated citizenships within the urban poor in India. This research is based on the assumption that …
A growing literature on citizenship and legality argues there is a link between exclusionary immigration policies, legal status assignment, and stratification in the United States. …
This dissertation explores transformations in citizenship among indigenous people in Guatemala. It investigates how and why decentralization has responded to indigenous activists’ demands for reconfiguring …
This dissertation examines innovative forms of memory and address that emerge from U.S. prison camps since World War II, the camp being a deployment of …
Drawing on contemporary democratic theory and the history of political thought, this dissertation explores questions of immigrant justice and how responsibilities might emerge in relationships …
This thesis explores the practice of displaying oaths in Hellenistic Greece when negotiating civic privilege. Citizenship oaths, or oaths of allegiance, are familiar to us …
This study examines an extraordinary citizenship project that helped transform the meanings of rights and democracy in twentieth-century São Paulo. It tells the story of …
Brazil, while largely characterized as a deeply authoritarian society, has, since its democratization, managed to establish institutional channels of effective democratic participation. The success of …
Since the Cold War, voting from abroad (VFA) has proliferated rapidly. This thesis asks what affects changes in countries’ VFA policies. Rather than reject current …
Reconceived: Women’s Reproduction after Roe v. Wade examines shifts in state support for pregnant women and mothers between the 1970s and 2000s. By bringing together …
This dissertation interrogates the evolution of the most ambitious phase of rights-based welfare expansion in post-colonial India and its effects on local governance and civic …
The Nature of Citizenship: Race, Citizenship, and Nature in Representations of Californian Agricultural Labor contends that cultural understandings of nature shaped notions of national belonging …
How should liberal democracies craft citizens through civic education in schools? This dissertation offers a new answer to this pressing question. Typically, responses must negotiate …
Istanbul and Alexandria, two of the most important port cities of the Ottoman Empire, experienced a gradual transition from religious diversity to homogenization during the …
