Defining Status in the Modern State: Citizens, Nationals and Refugees (NEJS 85a)
Instructor: Maham Ayaz
Essential Readings for the course:
- Castes, Stephen and Mark J. Miller. The Age of Migration. Macmillan Press Limited ,1993. (Later additions available)
- Bhabha, Homi. Nation and Narration. Routledge, 1990.
- Arendt, Hannah. “The Decline of the Nation State and the End of the Rights of Man,” Chap. 9, The Origins of Totalitarianism, Harcourt Inc. (1951) 2004.
- Beiner, Ronald. Theorizing Citizenship. SUNY Press, 1995.
Essential Readings on Israel:
- Rabinovich, Itamar and Jehuda Reinharz. “The New State of Israel, 1948-1956,” Chapter 2, Israel in the Middle East. Brandeis University Press, 2008.
- Walzer, Zohar, Loberbaum, and Ackerman, eds., “Laws of the State of Israel: Law of Return,” The Jewish Political Tradition: Volume Two, Membership, Yale University Press, 2003.
- Shafir, Gershon and Yoav Peled. Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002
Recommended Readings on Israel:
- Rozin, Orit. A Home for All Jews: Citizenship, Rights, and National Identity in the New Israeli State. Translated by Haim Watzman. Waltham, Massachusetts: Brandeis University Press, 2016.
- Robinson, Shira. Citizen Strangers: Palestinians and the Birth of Israel’s Liberal Settler State. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2013.
- Barak-Erez, Daphne. “Israel: Citizenship and Immigration Law in the Vise of Security, Nationality, and Human Rights.” International Journal of Constitutional Law 6.1 (2008): 184-[ii].