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Focusing on citizenship means thinking about the relationships between individuals and the stated in which they live. What difference does having citizenship rights mean for people's lives? Are structures of governance efficient and responsive to people's needs? This book examines ways in which citizenship is denies and argues that citizenship can be used to demand and advance human rights. Women often find themselves excluded from full citizenship by legal systems which leave men to look after the interests of their female dependents. But women need recognition as citizens in their own right, to protect them from exploitation and abuse. People from marginalised communities also often find that the state fails to respond to their needs and interests. Finally, migrants - a growing group of women and men in our global economy - live precariously as aliens in stated which do not acknowledge their claims to basic security and services. Topics here include the tension between cultural sensitivity and universal concepts of rights; reinterpretations of citizenship in communities where the state has failed to guarantee political or economic rights and projects which are helping to advance citizenship by increasing people's voice in decision making.
| ISBN | 0855985054 | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9780855985059
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 259 | | Publisher | Oxfam Publishing | | Published in | Oxford | | Imprint | Oxfam Professional | | Series editor | Sweetman, Caroline, Masika, Rachel | | Format | Paperback | | Series ISSN | 0968-286 | | Publication date | 01 Dec 2003 | | Series title | Oxfam Focus on Gender | | Library of Congress | JF801 | | Height (mm) | 246 | | DEWEY | 323.34 | | Width (mm) | 189 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Spine width (mm) | 7 | | Pages | 101 | | Academic level | Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly, Undergraduate |
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| | | Editorial 2 by Caroline Sweetman | | | | | | Women in Ugandan local government: the impact of affirmative action by Deb Johnson and Hope Kobuchu and Santa Vusiya Kayonga | | 8 | | | | Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society by Kanchan Sinha | | 19 | | | | Algerian women, citizenship, and the 'Family Code' by Zahia Smail Salhi | | 27 | | | | New forms of citizenship: democracy, family, and community in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil by Joanna S. Wheeler | | 36 | | | | Creating citizens who demand just governance: gender and development in the twenty-first century by Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay | | 45 | | | | Fragmented feminisms: women's organisations and citizenship in 'transition' in Poland by Angela Coyle | | 57 | | | | Gender, citizenship, and nationality in the Arab region by Lina Abou-Habib | | 66 | | | | Deprived of an individual identity: citizenship and women in Nepal by Mona Laczo | | 76 | | | | Women and citizenship in global teacher education: the Global-ITE Project by Jayashree Inbaraj and Subbalakshmi Kumar and Hellen Sambili and Alison Scott-Baumann | | 83 | | | | Resources by Abou-Habib, Lina and Leigh, Erin | | 93 | | | | Publications | | 93 | | | | Journals | | 97 | | | | Training manuals and briefing papers | | 98 | | | | Electronic resources | | 98 | | | | Websites | | 99 | | | | Organisations | | 100 |
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