101. THE UTILITY OF CITIZENSHIP STRIPPING LAWS IN THE UK, CANADA AND AUSTRALIA.
- Author
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PILLAI, SANGEETHA and WILLIAMS, GEORGE
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LOSS of citizenship , *CITIZENSHIP lawsuits , *CITIZENSHIP - Abstract
In three common law countries -- the UK, Canada and Australia -- recent legislation significantly expanded the grounds on which nationals can be stripped of their citizenship. In each country, two justifications were invoked to support the expanded grounds for citizenship deprivation: a symbolic justification, asserting that citizens who engage in particular behaviour do not deserve to retain their citizenship, and a security justification, which cast citizenship stripping as a necessary device to neutralise threats from within the citizenry. In this article, we examine the denationalisation laws introduced in each of the three countries and analyse the extent to which each law served these symbolic and security justifications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017