Constitutional Law
Nov. 3, 2016
The overlooked status of US nationals
Little is known about noncitizen national status. Historically, it is a story about racial exclusion, although today, its ongoing existence reveals a more complex story about who gets to make a choice about one's political membership. By Rose Cuison Villazor
The law of citizenship is typically framed along a binary concept: One is either a citizen (acquired at birth or by naturalization) or a noncitizen. But this dualistic understanding of citizenship is incomplete. There is an overlooked category that lies in the interstices of the citizen and the alien: the U.S. national.
To be precise, this category is known as the noncitizen national. In many ways, although not citiz...
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