Allegiance and Identity in a Globalised World

Fiona Jenkins, Mark Nolan, Kim Rubenstein

Cambridge University Press, Nov 6, 2014 - Law - 688 pages

Interrogating the concepts of allegiance and identity in a globalised world involves renewing our understanding of membership and participation within and beyond the nation-state. Allegiance can be used to define a singular national identity and common connection to a nation-state. In a global context, however, we need more dynamic conceptions to understand the importance of maintaining diversity and building allegiance with others outside borders. Understanding how allegiance and identity are being reconfigured today provides valuable insights into important contemporary debates around citizenship. This book reveals how public and international law understand allegiance and identity. Each involves viewing the nation-state as fundamental to concepts of allegiance and identity, but they also see the world slightly differently. With contributions from philosophers, political scientists and social psychologists, the result is a thorough appraisal of allegiance and identity in a range of socio-legal contexts.

Contents

• Identity at the edge of the constitutional community: 31
• identitybased constitutional claims: 52
• Reconciling regional autonomy with national: 77
• Is Europe still worth fighting for? Allegiance identity: 94
• migration belonging and place: 117
• Does law constitute identity? Indigenous allegiance: 142
• the strangers inside democracy: 169
• When immigrants and converts are not truly one of: 192
• welfare: 221
• Finnis in the context of the United: 243
• Political criminals terrorists and extracriminal regimes: 267
• migration and counterterrorism: 291
• is refugee: 311
• the legacy of the nineteenth: 354
• British child migrants to Australia: 381
• Temporary migration identity and allegiance: 407
• whose responsibility?: 426
• allegiance identity: 453
• The end of Olympic nationality: 478
• The perils of judicial construction of identity a critical: 497
• the ethnic underpinning: 522
• The relevance of nationality in the age of Google Skype: 542
• inequality as a threat: 568
• Bibliography: 590
• Index: 659

About the author

Fiona Jenkins is a senior lecturer in the School of Philosophy, the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra.

Mark Nolan is an associate professor at the Australian National University College of Law, Canberra.

Kim Rubenstein is professor and Director of the Centre for International and Public Law, Australian National University College of Law, Canberra.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Allegiance and Identity in a Globalised World; Volume 4 of Connecting International Law w; Issue 4 of Connecting International Law with Public Law
• Editors: Fiona Jenkins, Mark Nolan, Kim Rubenstein
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014
• ISBN: 1107074339, 9781107074330
• Length: 688 pages
• Subjects: Law / Constitutional; Law / General; Law / International; Law / Jurisprudence; Political Science / Civics & Citizenship; Political Science / Globalization; Political Science / International Relations / General