{"id":345,"date":"2018-08-16T08:01:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T20:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/globalmigration\/?p=345"},"modified":"2018-08-16T08:01:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T20:01:46","slug":"new-publication-from-dr-greg-rawlings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/globalmigration\/new-publication-from-dr-greg-rawlings\/","title":{"rendered":"New Publication from Dr Greg Rawlings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our member <a href=\"https:\/\/www.otago.ac.nz\/anthropology\/staff\/otago112742.html\">Dr Greg Rawlings<\/a> from the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology has recently had his article on the British Nationality Act in Vanuatu published in the journal\u00a0<em>Twentieth Century British History<\/em>. Advance online access to the article is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/tcbh\/hwy011\">here<\/a>\u00a0while the abstract is reproduced below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The British Nationality Act (BNA) of 1948 was designed to provide a form of supranational citizenship to accommodate the separate nationality provisions that were beginning to proliferate as a result of constitutional\u00a0change within the late empire, decolonization and the formation of the Commonwealth. Under the provisions of the BNA, members of the Commonwealth would continue to be unified by transnational forms of\u00a0citizenship, at least in principle. The Act aimed to cover every political arrangement conceivable in the late empire and early Commonwealth and contributed to the transformation of Great Britain into a multicultural\u00a0society, by providing the legal vehicle for immigration into the UK in the second half of the twentieth century. However, the BNA had its limits. It could not be applied to territories characterized by constitutional\u00a0exceptionalism and jurisdictional hybridity. In the Condominium of the New Hebrides, jointly governed by France and Great Britain from 1906 to 1980, the majority of the indigenous population were unable to benefit\u00a0from the BNA, despite efforts to extend its coverage in all eligible territories. As part of the condominium agreement, the indigenous population were ineligible for any form of citizenship\u2014British, French or New\u00a0Hebridean\u2014and remained stateless until independence as the Republic of Vanuatu in 1980. This article examines the relationship between indigenous statelessness and the BNA, exploring the implementation,\u00a0interpretation and extent of the BNA in a territory characterized by constitutional hybridity, compromise and ambiguity. It argues that despite its emphasis on universal commonwealth citizenship, the BNA could not\u00a0accommodate the diverse political, legal and constitutional diversity that characterized the Dominions, Crown Colonies, protectorates, protected states and condominia that had proliferated under imperial rule and whose\u00a0legacies continued to inform the possibilities for decolonization and the politics of post-colonial citizenship making.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our member Dr Greg Rawlings from the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology has recently had his article on the British Nationality Act in Vanuatu published in the journal\u00a0Twentieth Century British History. Advance online access to the article is\u00a0here\u00a0while the abstract [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20036,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/globalmigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/globalmigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/globalmigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/globalmigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/globalmigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/globalmigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/globalmigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/globalmigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/globalmigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}