What is it about?
This study reveals the three major competing ideas underlying citizenship in legal thinking in the US.
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Why is it important?
The notion of citizenship is contested today as part of the immigration debate in the US. Some conservatives want to eliminate "birthright citizenship," because it grants US citizenship to children born in the US--irrespective of the parents legal status. The paper reveals the relative limits and strengths of these three rival notions.
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I use Critical Discourse Analysis to unpack the legalese of law journal articles to make clear (I hope) the fundamental ideas underlying this critical notion.
Professor Emeritus Otto Santa Ana
University of California Los Angeles
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This page is a summary of: Blood, Soil, and Tears, Journal of Language and Politics, March 2017, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/jlp.15038.san.
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