Title Security, citizenship and human rights : shared values in uncertain times / Derek McGhee

Published Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 221 pages) Series Palgrave politics of identity and citizenship series Palgrave politics of identity and citizenship series Contents Introduction : value trouble -- Pre-emptive securities : border controls and preventative counter-terrorism -- Building a consensus on 'national security': terrorism, human rights and 'core values' -- Restoring public confidence : managed migration, racialization and earned citizenship -- Security, citizenship and responsibilities : debates on a bill of rights in the UK -- Belonging together or belonging to the polity? Shared values, Britishness and patriotism -- Patriots of the present and the future : ethical solidarity and equalities in uncertain times Summary "Security, Citizenship and Human Rights examines counter-terrorism, immigration, citizenship, human rights, 'equalities' and the shifting discourses of 'shared values' and human rights in contemporary Britain. The book argues that British citizenship and human rights policy is being remade and remoulded around public security and that this process could be detrimental to 'our' sense of citizenship, shared values and commitment to human rights"--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Citizenship -- Great Britain. Social values -- Great Britain Terrorism -- Great Britain -- Prevention National security -- Great Britain Human rights -- Great Britain Civil rights -- Great Britain 86.81 human rights. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science. HISTORY -- Military -- Other. Citizenship Civil rights Emigration and immigration Human rights National security Social values Terrorism -- Prevention Citizenship. Innere Sicherheit. Staatsangehörigkeit. Menschenrecht. SUBJECT Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration Subject Great Britain United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Grossbritannien. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230283183 0230283187 134931725X 9781349317257

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