Speaker:
- Peter Spiro (Charles Weiner Professor at Temple University - Beasley School of Law)
Moderator:
- Robert Dujarric, ICAS Co-Director
Dual citizenship was once universally reviled as a moral abomination, then largely marginalized as an anomaly. During the twentieth century, states were able to police the status and manage incidental costs to the extent that full suppression proved impossible. More recent decades have seen wide acceptance of dual citizenship as those costs dissipated for both states and individuals. Powerful nonresident citizen communities have played a crucial role in winning recognition of the status. A handful of states -- Japan notable among them -- have held out against this clear trend and increasingly vocal emigrant and immigrant constituencies and children of bi-national couples. This session will situate Japan's resistance to dual citizenship in a global historical context.
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 18:30-20:00
Temple University Japan Campus, Room 313
Registration is not required (e-mail to icas@tuj.temple.edu with any questions or reply to this email).
This event is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies (ICAS).
Note: All ICAS events are held in English, open to the public, and admission is free unless otherwise noted.
Peter Spiro is Charles Weiner Professor at Temple University - Beasley School of Law and the author of At Home in Two Countries: The Past and Future of Dual Citizenship (NYU Press 2016). Before joining Temple’s faculty in 2006, Professor Spiro was Rusk Professor of Law at the University of Georgia Law School. A former member of the staff of the White House National Security Council and law clerk to Justice David H. Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court, Spiro has published widely on international law and migration issues. His other books include Beyond Citizenship: American Identity After Globalization (Oxford University Press 2008) and Citizenship: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press 2019). He is a former Robert Shuman Fellow at the European University Institute and has held visiting appointments at the University of Texas, Boston University, and the Australian National University. Spiro has contributed commentary to such publications as The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, and Slate. He is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Virginia Law School.