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SUMMARY:Citizenship Stripping: From Blair to May\, The Story of How the Br
 itish State Weaponised Citizenship - Ismail Einashe (Dart Center Ochberg\,
  Columbia)\, Alice Ross (Guardian)\, Daniel Trilling (New Humanist)\, Ashw
 ini Vasanthakumar (King's College London)
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CONTACT:Waseem Yaqoob
DESCRIPTION:Ismail Einashe (Columbia School of Journalism)\; Alice Ross (G
 uardian)\; Daniel Trilling (New Humanist)\; Dr Ashwini Vasanthakumar (Law\
 , King’s London)\n\nCitizenship-stripping has become a key weapon in the
  counter-terrorism toolbox. The British government has the power to revoke
  the citizenship of dual UK nationals or naturalised Britons with little o
 versight and virtually no public scrutiny. To do so the Home Secretary nee
 ds neither the approval of a court nor that an individual be convicted of 
 a crime. The practice has grown since 9/11\, when legislation was passed t
 o make the process easier. Under Labour\, five people had their citizenshi
 p removed. But while Theresa May was at the Home Office\, 70 people were s
 tripped. Yet these near-arbitrary powers have caused remarkably little con
 cern. This seminar examines how citizenship-stripping became a fixture of 
 the British state. From Blair to May we hear the story of how the British 
 state weaponised citizenship.\n\n*Ismail Einashe* is a freelance journalis
 t who contributes to Prospect Magazine\, The Nation\, NPR\, The Guardian\,
  New Humanist\, The Atlantic\, Index on Censorship and others. He has work
 ed for BBC Radio Current Affairs and has presented on BBC Radio. He is a 2
 017 Dart Center Ochberg Fellow at Columbia University Journalism School an
 d an associate at the Cambridge Migration Research Network (CAMMIGRES). \n
 \n*Alice Ross* has a masters in investigative journalism from City Univers
 ity and has worked at The Guardian and the Bureau of Investigative Journal
 ism. She holds awards including the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism a
 nd the Richard Wild Prize. Working with a colleague\, Chris Woods\, she fi
 rst revealed the British government's use of citizenship-stripping as a co
 unter-terrorism tool in The Independent and reported on it for over a year
 . \n\n*Daniel Trilling* is editor of New Humanist magazine and has reporte
 d extensively on refugees at Europe’s borders. His work has been publish
 ed by The Guardian\, Al Jazeera\, the London Review of Books\, Newsweek\, 
 New Statesman and others\, and was shortlisted for a 2014 Amnesty media aw
 ard. His first book\, Bloody Nasty People: the Rise of Britain’s Far Rig
 ht (Verso) was longlisted for the 2013 Orwell Prize. He studied modern Eur
 opean languages at University College London.\n\n*Dr Ashwini Vasanthakumar
 * is Lecturer in Politics\, Philosophy & Law at the Dickson Poon School of
  Law at King’s College London)\, which she joined in September 2016. She
  is also a researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies (Stockholm) on 
 the project ‘The Boundary Problem in Democratic Theory’\, and an affil
 iate of the Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights\, Crime and Sec
 urity (Osgoode Hall Law School). Previously she was a Lecturer in Politica
 l Theory at the University of York\, a Term Fellow in Political Theory at 
 University College\, Oxford\, and a Yale Ruebhausen Fellow and Assistant P
 rofessor at the Jindal Global Law School.
LOCATION:Keynes Hall\, King's College\, Cambridge
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