The Vulnerability of Dual Citizenship: from Supranational Subject to Citizen to Subject?

Abstract

This chapter provides an overview of the trajectory of the place of citizenship in Australian law today. It argues that the journey has involved travelling from an acceptance and foundation of a form of cosmopolitan or supra-national citizenship, to one of vulnerability for dual citizens. The recent amendments to the Australian Citizenship Act 2007 (Cth) extend the context for stripping dual citizen Australians of their citizenship, and not sole citizens, due to Australia’s “commitment” to the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.1 However, in doing so, it changes the relationship between the individual and the state, reverting Australian citizens back to their “subject” like status in principle, even if not in title Show more