Ghost Citizens by Jamie Chai Yun Liew - 9781773636665

Ghost CitizensDecolonial Apparitions of Stateless, Foreign and Wayward Figures in Law\nAuthor(s): Jamie Chai Yun Liew\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd, Canada\nImprint: Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781773636665, 978-1773636665\nSynopsis\nGhost Citizens is about in situ stateless people, persons who live in a country they consider their own but which does not recognize them as citizens. Liew develops the concept of the \""ghost citizen\"" to understand a global experience and a double oppression: of being invisible and feared in law. The term also refers to two troubling state practices: ghosting their own citizens and conferring ghost citizenship (casting persons as foreigners without legal proof). Told through an examination of law, legal processes and interviews with stateless persons and their advocates, this deeply researched book examines international and domestic jurisprudence as well as administrative decision making to show an emerging practic.