Alienage

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ALIENAGE. The condition or state of alien.

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The requirement of alienage, central to the definition of refugee in art 1A(2) of the Refugee Convention, lies at the heart of the differentiation between refugees and internally displaced persons.

Treating like alike: the principle of nondiscrimination as a tool to mandate the equal treatment of refugees and beneficiaries of complementary protection

All of these technologies of alienage are evident in the years before the May attack.

Attacks on foreigners in South Africa: more than just xenophobia?

at 1548 ("Race, gender, alienage, and illegitimacy can all be changed, yet discrimination on the basis of any of these categories compels heightened scrutiny by the courts.

Re-orienting the sex discrimination argument for gay rights after Lawrence v. Texas

We hold that Section 1981 prohibits governmental discrimination on the basis of alienage.

Ninth Circuit holds that application of Nonresident Workers Act in Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands which are politically united to United States did not violate nonresident plaintiff's rights under U.S. Constitution and statutes

Defense Industry Security Clearance Office, the Ninth Circuit repeated this language almost verbatim, asserting that Homosexuality is not an immutable characteristic; it is behavioral and hence is fundamentally different from traits such as race, gender, or alienage, which define already existing suspect and quasi-suspect classes" (573).

The veils of the law: race and sexuality in Nella Larsen's passing

216) The analysis becomes more complicated, however, when the federal government authorizes states to discriminate based on alienage.

Alienage classifications and the denial of health care to DREAMers

Curtis Bradley has argued, for example, that the ATS may well have been intended simply to implement Article Ill's alienage jurisdiction.

Universal jurisdiction, the Alien Tort Statute, and transnational public-law litigation after Kiobel

like classifications based upon race, alienage, and national

The Neo-Hamiltonian temptation

365, 372 (1971) ("[State] classifications based on alienage, like those based on nationality or race, are inherently suspect and subject to close judicial scrutiny.

Shadow immigration enforcement and its constitutional dangers

107) Yet this interpretation leaves no room for the application of anything other than state or federal law and therefore excludes foreign law in alienage cases.

Erie's four functions: reframing choice of law in federal courts

Court started to invalidate alienage laws as an impermissible regulation

The states of immigration

114) By the time alienage (as opposed to naturalization) (115) legislation came onto the agenda in the form of the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, the threshold had been raised to fourteen years.