From Subject to Citizen: Australian Citizenship in the Twentieth CenturyCambridge University Press, 1997 M05 12 - 341 pages This important, theoretically sophisticated work explores the concepts of li beral democracy, citizenship and rights. Grounded in critical original research, the book examines Australia's political and legal institutions, and traces the history and future of citizenship and the state in Australia. The central theme is that making proof of belonging to the national culture a precondition of citizenship is inappropriate for a multicultural society such as Australia. This becomes an object lesson for the multicultural regional polities forming throughout the world. |
Contents
List of Tables | 7 |
Contexts of democracy | 7 |
From Subject to Citizen 19011996 | 9 |
2 | 41 |
19481986 | 84 |
Top ten countries in order of former citizenship | 90 |
Citizenship rates by year of arrival and birthplace | 107 |
19831996 | 113 |
The Active Citizen and Beyond | 217 |
The Active Citizen and Direct Democracy in Australia | 223 |
The Gini index | 234 |
Electoral enrolments for State and Territory lower | 237 |
lower houses | 243 |
Conclusion | 248 |
Constitutional referenda 190188 | 250 |
Classification of Southeast Asian countries on | 283 |
Discourses of Exclusion | 143 |
Discourses of Exclusion Silencing the Migrant Voice | 149 |
Estimates of overseasborn Australian citizens | 154 |
South and East Asia applications visas issued | 156 |
Discourses of Exclusion | 188 |
Notes | 287 |
19 | 308 |
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