Denaturalized : how thousands lost their citizenship and lives in Vichy France /
At its core, this is a detective story. How do we trace a citizen made alien by the law? How do we solve a murder when the body has vanished? Faced with the absence of straightforward evidence, Zalc turned to the original naturalization papers in order to uncover how denaturalization later occurred....
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the French. |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2020.
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| Summary: | At its core, this is a detective story. How do we trace a citizen made alien by the law? How do we solve a murder when the body has vanished? Faced with the absence of straightforward evidence, Zalc turned to the original naturalization papers in order to uncover how denaturalization later occurred. She discovered that, in many cases, the very officials who granted citizenship to foreigners before 1940 were the ones who retracted it under Vichy rule. The idea of citizenship has always existed alongside the threat of its revocation, and this is especially true for those who are naturalized citizens of a modern state. At a time when the status of millions of naturalized citizens in the United States and around the world is under greater scrutiny, Denaturalized turns our attention to the precariousness of the naturalized experience, the darkness that can befall those who suddenly find themselves legally cast out. |
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| Item Description: | "First published in French as Dénaturalisés : les retraits de nationalité sous Vichy, © Editions du Seuil, 2016"-- title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 397 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780674988422 0674988426 |