Citizenship and Claims of Belonging in Australian Law and History

“成为”澳大利亚人在法律上意味着什么？法律在形成澳大利亚的归属理论、公民身份和澳大利亚国家地位的概念方面发挥什么作用？该项目将解决这些问题，探索关键的宪法案件中，个人要求'属于'的核心问题。它将解决公民身份和澳大利亚社区成员之间关系的基本问题，将这些问题置于其时代的社会和政治文化背景中。成果包括对澳大利亚社会凝聚力的历史基础的理解，以及澳大利亚公民身份的法律的和社会愿景在关键时刻的转变和有时相互冲突所带来的挑战。

What does it mean legally to ‘be’ an Australian? What role does the law play in shaping theories of belonging to Australia, and concepts of citizenship and Australian nationhood? The Project will address these questions, exploring key constitutional cases in which individual claims to ‘belong’ were the central issue. It will address fundamental issues about the relationship between citizenship and membership of the Australian community, contextualizing these in the social and political culture of their time. Outcomes include a historically grounded understanding of what makes Australian society cohere, and the challenges created at key points in time by shifting and sometimes conflicting legal and social visions of Australian citizenship.