Revoking Citizenship

Ben Herzog is a Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor in the U.S.) at the Ben-Gurion Research Institute, at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. In 2012–2013 Ben Herzog served as the William Lyon Mackenzie King Research Fellow at the Canada Program of Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.Ediberto Román is Professor of Law at Florida International University. He is the author of The Other American Colonies: An International and Constitutional Law Examination of the United States' Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Island Conquests, and edits the NYU Press series Citizenship and Migration in the Americas.

"An original fascinating and insightful interpretation of a neglected dimension of American political culture: the power to revoke citizenship. Herzogs book is an important exploration of the deeper meaning of political and national culture as it affects and is affected by legal arrangements." - Pnina Lahav,Boston University "In this pioneering study, Ben Herzog shows that in order to understand the continually-contested status of citizenship, we must understand how citizenship is lost. Challenging the popular notion that only totalitarian regimes take away citizenship, his book throws much needed light on the long history of revocation in the United States, the postwar judicial revolution that minimized the practice, and new challenges in the twenty-first century to that revolutions achievements. By deftly placing contemporary controversies about terrorism and the right to have rights into this broader historical and social context, Revoking Citizenship provides a timely yet sure to be lasting contribution to scholarship. For anyone concerned with the problems of citizenship, it is essential reading." - Chad Alan Goldberg,University of Wisconsin-Madison "Scholarship on citizenship has awakened to the potential power that lies in laws of expatriation. Ben Herzogs political, philosophical, and jurisprudential history of expatriation practices reaches back further in U.S. history than other such studies and sheds much needed light on the contemporary relevance of this important facet of U.S. citizenship." - Elizabeth F. Cohen,Syracuse University "ThatRevoking Citizenshipnot only provokesquestions but also simultaneously provides the groundwork necessary for further inquiry into these issues illustrates why the book is likely to become a staple in the canon of historical and legal scholarship on citizenship." (The Journal of American History) "For Herzog, expatriation policy and practices are windows to American understanding of citizenship." (Choice)

• Contents List of Tables and Figures ix Foreword xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 1 Revoking Citizenship 9 2 National Beginnings-American versus British Citizenship 27 3 Legislative Initiatives 37 4 International Relations 56 5 Consular Dilemmas 70 6 Supreme Court Rulings 78 7 The Board of Appellate Review 90 8 The War on Terror 110 9 Dual Citizenship and the Revocation of Citizenship 122 Conclusion 137 Notes 141 Bibliography 161 Index 177 About the Author 187