Friday, October 30, 2015

Flophouse Citizenship and International Migration Reading List

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Time for another update of the Flophouse citizenship/migration reading list. New books are in  green . I highly recommend the titles below -...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Documenting Identity: Birth Certificates

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A few days ago a federal judge in the United States upheld (for now) Texas' right to deny undocumented migrants access to US  birth cert...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

How to Write about Japan

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This is the title of a very good essay written by Patrick Sherriff, a writer/journalist who lives in Akibo, Japan. How to Write about Japa...
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Monday, October 26, 2015

My Experience is Where I'm From

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Says Taiye Selasi in this brilliant Ted Talk. Travelling in Japan this weekend I cannot count the number of times we were asked, "Whe...
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Friday, October 23, 2015

Legibility

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As of yesterday, I am half a century old. I celebrated this fact an ocean away from where I was born.  Osaka is about 9 hours by plane fro...
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Sunday, October 11, 2015

Riener versus Bulgaria

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On August 28, 1997 Ms. Ianka Riener filed complaint  46343/99 against Bulgaria with the European Commission of Human Rights.  Almost 10 year...
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Thursday, September 24, 2015

Are There Limits to the Right to Change One's Nationality?

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Yes. Just as there are no universally accepted standards for the attribution of nationality, there are no universal standards governing lo...
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