Colonial Citizenship

Law, Race and Rights Through the Portuguese Empire
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-5292-4321-5
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Who deserves to be a citizen? Colonial Citizenship reveals how citizenship emerged from empire as a technology of racial and civilisational sorting. Navigating the longest-standing European empire, it analyses colonial policies, citizenship regulations and segregation laws to show how citizenship works as both affirmation and denial of rights. Drawing on newly uncovered Portuguese archives, it develops a critical citizenship theory that asks, from the perspective of the colonised, who has the right to have rights and whether citizenship, despite its colonial nature, can become a tool for justice. A devastating critique and a theory of survival essential for decolonial studies, jurisprudence, and constitutional law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Loureiro, M C

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht Staatsangehörigkeitsrecht
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Colonial Contexts

1. Pre-Constitutional Subalternity

2. Constitutionalising Subalternity

Part II: Colonial Developments

3. Creating the Indigene

4. Living in Indigeneity

5. Leaving Indigeneity behind

Part III: Colonial Ends

6. Becoming Other

Über Autor(innen)

M. C. Loureiro is a Lecturer at Leicester Law School.