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Prabhat, Devyani --- "The blurred lines of British citizenship and immigration control: the ordinary and the exceptional" [2019] ELECD 1757; in Prabhat, Devyani (ed), "Citizenship in Times of Turmoil?" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) 198

Book Title: Citizenship in Times of Turmoil?

Editor(s): Prabhat, Devyani

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section: Chapter 10

Section Title: The blurred lines of British citizenship and immigration control: the ordinary and the exceptional

Author(s): Prabhat, Devyani

Number of pages: 19

Abstract/Description:

This chapter examines how immigration and nationality are inter-twined in British history in a manner that makes citizenship rights uncertain both in ordinary times as well as in times of heightened national security concerns when exceptional justifications are presented. It examines how people can be recategorized by immigration laws at ordinary times. It analyses recent trends such as inclusion of private individuals in immigration control, which is not required for emergency reasons but is ordinary, everyday immigration control. While exceptional conditions may provide some additional justifications for immigration control and loss of citizenship rights (e.g. via denaturalisation), national security has never been essential for reducing citizenship rights or status. Further, national security justifications have become routinised with time thereby obliterating differences between the ordinary and the exceptional.