Citizenship, Peter J. Spiro
Citizenship, Peter J. Spiro
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Citizenship
What Everyone Needs to Know

Author: Peter J. Spiro

Narrator: Rick Adamson

Unabridged: 5 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/19/2020


Synopsis

In Citizenship: What Everyone Needs to Know, legal scholar Peter J. Spiro explains citizenship through accessible terms and questions: what citizenship means, how you obtain citizenship (and how you lose it), how it has changed through history, what benefits citizenship gets you, and what obligations it extracts from you—all in comparative perspective. He addresses how citizenship status affects a person's rights and obligations, what it means to be stateless, the refugee crisis, and whether or not countries should terminate the citizenship of terrorists. He also examines alternatives to national citizenship, including sub-national and global citizenship, and the phenomenon of investor citizenship. Spiro concludes by considering whether nationalist and extremist politics will lead to a general retreat from state-based forms of association and the end of citizenship as we know it. Ultimately, Spiro provides historical and critical perspective to a concept that is a part of our everyday discourse, providing a crucial contribution to our understanding of a central organizing principle of the modern world.

About Peter J. Spiro

Peter J. Spiro is Charles R. Weiner Professor of Law at Temple University Law School and a leading authority on citizenship law and theory. His work has appeared in Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Slate, among other publications. A former US Supreme Court law clerk and National Security Council staff member, he is also the author of Beyond Citizenship: American Identity after Globalization and At Home in Two Countries: The Past and Future of Dual Citizenship.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Eric on February 25, 2023

I liked the work mostly for it being as clearly informative as it is with only small interjections of the inevitable politics that might arise from the discussions surrounding the subject of citizenship. The subtitle, "... What Everyone Needs to Know" might be a bit of overkill. Most people will lik......more