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The Welfare State's Fragile FoundationsTensions have existed between liberty and equality ever since modern democracy placed citizenship at the root of political legitimacy.
Yet it is also the duty of citizens to preserve the formal, political meaning of citizenship as state intervention broadens to ensure the well being of all.
Is Citizenship a Right?
MELBOURNE – Should your government be able to take away your citizenship?
In the United Kingdom, the government has had the legal authority to revoke naturalized Britons’ citizenship since 1918.
Since then, the British government has revoked the citizenship of 42 people, including 20 cases in 2013.
British Home Secretary Theresa May has said that citizenship is “a privilege, not a right.”
Therefore, by stripping him of citizenship, the UK government made him stateless.
Now, partly in response to fears that Britons who have joined the fighting in Syria may return to carry out terrorism at home, the government has proposed legislation enabling it to revoke the citizenship of naturalized Britons suspected of involvement in terrorist activities – even if this makes them stateless.
In the United States, citizenship can be revoked only on limited grounds, such as fraud committed in the citizenship application or service in another country’s military.
But one important difference is that if people who join other countries’ military forces lose their US citizenship, they can presumably become citizens of the country for which they are fighting.
Should the person whose citizenship is revoked mount an appeal, the government is not required to disclose to the appellant the evidence on which it has based its decision.
There is a strong case for an appeal system that allows for full and fair review of decisions to revoke citizenship.
The ability to revoke citizenship without presenting any evidence in public is one reason why a government may prefer this course to arresting and trying terrorism suspects.
And yet simply revoking citizenship does not solve the problem of leaving at large a suspected terrorist, who may then carry out an attack elsewhere – unless, as with Sakr, he is killed.
Suppose that the government gets it right 19 times out of 20 when it relies on suspicion of involvement in terrorist activities to revoke people’s citizenship.
The much greater harm done by the terrorist attack cannot be ignored; but when a democratic government starts to revoke citizenship and make people stateless, it sets a precedent for authoritarian regimes that wish to rid themselves of dissidents by expelling them, as the former Soviet Union did to the poet and later Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky – among many others.
In the absence of global citizenship, it may be best to retain the principle that citizenship is not to be revoked without a judicial hearing.
It seems to me that anyone who thinks about such matters is bound to agree with Goodhart that citizenship, for most people, is something they are born into.
This is for good reason: using wealth as the chief criterion for citizenship controverts the values of virtually any society.
Embracing the Forum’s motto – “Entrepreneurship in the global public interest” – the Davos discussions are governed by a genuine spirit of global citizenship.
Germany and others have introduced new measures, including an increase in police personnel, accelerated deportation of migrants who have committed crimes, and the authority to strip German citizenship from those who join foreign “terror militias.”
Defenders of the French Republic, who took Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity seriously, thought of citizenship as a legal concept, not one based on blood and soil.
British citizenship, of course, guarantees freedom of expression and minority rights, and young Muslims take full advantage of this.
Thus, they did not need to take additional steps to acquire specifically UK citizenship; nor did their children, whose arrival was recorded only on paper landing cards.
Likewise, in April, Putin signed legislation simplifying the procedure for Russian speakers in former Soviet republics to obtain Russian citizenship.
Europe's InvisiblesIn a historic turnabout, the new German government of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder is poised to offer citizenship to four million of its foreign (mostly Turkish) residents.
Germany, of all European countries, by basing its citizenship laws on blood, has been Europe's most difficult place for foreigners to acquire citizenship.
Through Voltaire and Kant the idea of Europe was broadened to mean cosmopolitanism and the ideal of global citizenship.
In an earlier, larger idea of Europe, it might have made sense for such "outsiders" to pursue the strategy of inclusion, seeking national citizenship if not full assimilation into the national culture.
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