Bargaining with the State from Afar

American Citizenship in Treaty Port China, 1844-1942

Autor: Eileen P. Scully

Jazyk:

Vazba: Brožovaná

Vydavatel: Columbia University Press

Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele

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In the early 1990s, when organizations representing the 2.6 million U.S. nationals living abroad app...

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Autor

Eileen P. Scully

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

2001

Stránek

304

EAN

9780231121095

ISBN

0231121091

Enbook ID

04557732

Vydavatel

Columbia University Press

Hmotnost

435

Rozměry

150 x 226 x 17

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In the early 1990s, when organizations representing the 2.6 million U.S. nationals living abroad appealed to Congress for their own non-voting representative, the response of one Senator was to dismiss these "moans of the mink-swathed Americans abroad." However, the image of a life of luxury abroad is usually a harsher reality complicated by income taxes, military duty, and legal jurisdiction. What exactly is the obligation of a state toward citizens who live outside its borders? Bargaining with the State from Afar traces the relationship between the United States federal government and sojourning Americans living in the colonial enclaves of pre-World War II China. This group of Americans was not subject to Chinese law, but rather to an amalgam of laws borrowed from the District of Columbia and other territorial codes, as well as to local ordinances enacted by foreigners themselves. Scully explores U.S. government efforts to police this anomalous zone in the American policy and places the struggle between federal officials and sojourning U.S. nationals in the larger context of changing international law and modern citizenship regimes. She argues that the American experience with extraterritorial justice in China offers an important new vantage point from which to examine a singular area in the history of modern states. This case study of U.S. consular jurisdiction reveals the legal, political, and cultural process through which modern states have struggled to govern citizens outside their borders. Scully's examination of the U. S. Court for China is one of the first serious analysis of this anomalous institution.

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