Background research, relevant literature, legislation and other materials on gender and citizenship.
This article seeks to trace the mutability of the gendered identity and status of citizen that is the locale of a persistent tension between Shariah laws and constitutional statutes in Pakistan.
Continue Reading | Posted by christina on November 20th, 2006
This volume brings together case studies of citizen action aimed at giving voice to women’s needs and concerns, carving out spaces for equal participation of women and men in governance, and improving accountability and responsiveness of governance institutions to poor women’s interests.
Continue Reading | Posted by christina on November 6th, 2006
This issue of Women2000 and Beyond considers discrimination against women in nationality laws. It examines laws that differentiate between women and men in the acquisition and retention of nationality, as well as in relation to the nationality of their children, highlighting the legal and practical disadvantages such laws cause.
Continue Reading | Posted by christina on September 2nd, 2006
The concept of citizenship is a central and mandatory concept for the modern nation state and is thus essential for any discussion of governance and gender. The concept of citizenship entails a direct and legal relationship between the individual and the state, a relationship that carries with it obligations and enforceable rights as defined by juridical processes.
Continue Reading | Posted by christina on August 28th, 2006
Conflict, the need to earn a livelihood, and other factors lead to international migration. Statistics on migration to and from Arab countries are rare, but the existing data shows that the number of women married to foreigners has dramatically increased.
Continue Reading | Posted by christina on August 25th, 2006
Women’s struggle for both equality and national liberation are crucial to democracy: if a democratic state is one in which citizens have the right to participate in society and the way it is governed, women must, automatically, be included in the equation. Yet in many so-called democratic states, women lack full citizenship.
Continue Reading | Posted by christina on August 25th, 2006
This paper investigates the impact of cultural and gender systems in the production of the unequal relationships of Arab women and men to the laws and practices of citizenship.
Continue Reading | Posted by WLP on August 21st, 2006