Examines questions of allegiance and identity in a globalised world through the disciplines of law, politics, philosophy and psychology.

1. Introduction: allegiance and identity in a globalised world Fiona Jenkins, Mark Nolan and Kim Rubenstein; Part I. Constitutional Legal Foundations: 2. Identity at the edge of the constitutional community Elisa Arcioni; 3. An odd partnership: identity-based constitutional claims in modern democracy Vito Breda; 4. Reconciling regional autonomy with national sovereignty: what does China mean to Hong Kong? Simon Marsden; 5. Is Europe still worth fighting for? Allegiance, identity, and integration paradigms revisited Pablo Cristóbal Jiménez Lobeira; Part II. Indigenous and Customary Law: 6. (Em)placing law: migration, belonging and place in Solomon Islands Rebecca Monson and George Hoa'au; 7. Does law constitute identity? Indigenous allegiance and identity in Australia Asmi Wood and Jo-Anne Weinman; Part III. Social Inclusion and Exclusion: 8. Pledging allegiance: the strangers inside democracy and citizenship Fiona Jenkins; 9. When immigrants and converts are not truly one of us: examining the social psychology of marginalizing racism Michael J. Platow, Diana M. Grace and Michael J. Smithson; 10. Diversity, national identity and social cohesion: welfare redistribution and national defence Peter Balint; Part IV. National Security Concerns and Counter-terrorism Law: 11. The security of citizenship?: Finnis in the context of the United Kingdom's citizenship stripping provisions Rayner Thwaites; 12. Political criminals, terrorists and extra-criminal regimes of punishment Ben Golder and Christopher Michaelsen; 13. Dangerous intersection: migration and counter-terrorism laws in the case of Dr Mohammed Haneef Susan Harris Rimmer; Part V. Forced and Voluntary Migration of Refugees and Children: 14. Recognition and narrative identities: is refugee law redeemable? Matthew Zagor; 15. Myth-conceiving sovereignty: the legacy of the nineteenth century Eve Lester; 16. Betrayal and broken ties: British child migrants to Australia, citizenship and identity Sharon Bessell; Part VI. Temporary or Permanent Labour Migration: 17. Temporary migration, identity and allegiance Valeria Ottonelli and Tiziana Torresi; 18. Transnational labour migrants: whose responsibility? Susan Kneebone; Part VII. Transnational and International Legal Perspectives: 19. The complicated case of Stern Hu: allegiance, identity and nationality in a globalised world Joshua Neoh, Donald R. Rothwell and Kim Rubenstein; 20. The end of Olympic nationality Peter J. Spiro; 21. The perils of judicial construction of identity - a critical analysis of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia's Jurisprudence on Protected Persons Tamás Hoffman; 22. Primordialism and otherness: the 'ethnic' underpinning of 'minority' in international law Mohammad Shahabuddin; 23. The relevance of nationality in the age of Google, Skype and Facebook Rishi Gulati; 24. Concluding remarks Thomas Pogge.