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One innovative response is to by-pass national citizenship altogether in pursuit of "transnational citizenship".
It would be wrong to portray "transnational citizenship" today as anything more than a goal.
So offers of citizenship, such as to Germany's long isolated Turkish residents, however delayed, should not be lightly spurned.
But enough has already been said and done to indicate that this is not the only possible path; that the goal of transnational citizenship is not utterly unreal.
In 1982, the government, concerned about illegal immigration from Bangladesh, enacted a law that stripped the Rohingya of their citizenship, leaving them stateless.
Constitutional guarantees of these rights are the great achievement of the long battle for citizenship that marked the last two centuries.
Wanting real citizenship for all meant that more had to be done than offering legal guarantees, information, or even financial support.
To repeat the earlier point: affirmative action was and is a courageous final step in the fight for universal citizenship rights - not just on paper, but in reality.
Even after the US Civil War, the Fourteenth Amendment did not protect Native Americans: in the 1880s, the Supreme Court ruled that it did not cover them, and they gained citizenship rights only in 1924.
Stripped of his Ivorian citizenship in 1999, Ouattara is popular in the north of the country, which has been held by the “New Forces” rebels since 2002.
The parties also agreed to work together on modifying national identity, eligibility for citizenship, and land tenure laws.
Nowhere in the world do neighbors live together more peacefully, and people move more freely and with greater security, than in Europe, owing in part to a new European identity that is not bound to national citizenship.
It was a startling image, illustrating how fear can overrun the commitments needed to maintain open societies and political freedoms even in Europe, the birthplace of modern citizenship.
Foreign direct investment should be encouraged, not hindered, regardless of whether it will support goods production and job creation or stronger public policies and more active citizenship.
He can appease both factions by ending a naturalization policy that confers citizenship on foreign-born Sunnis, eroding the Shia majority.
Egypt enjoyed the beginnings of democracy, true representation, constitutionalism, and, crucially, the notion – central to modern citizenship – of equal rights and obligations.
Although the First Amendment of the US Constitution bans any religious test for citizenship or political office, ruling out questions on religious beliefs, it is possible to gather information on ethnicity, even in certain cases of multiple ethnic origins, such as “White,” “Black,” “Asian,” and “native American.”
But government statisticians have long been studying the national origins of immigrants, and are permitted to indicate the previous nationality of people who have acquired French citizenship.
After being denied citizenship in Myanmar, an entire generation of Rohingya is now being denied the right to education.
We can perhaps still pretend, against the odds, that all member countries will ultimately join the euro; but we cannot ignore the gulf between those who claim one can be a proud European Muslim and those for whom Christianity is quintessential to European citizenship.
Since he came to power in 2012, all sorts of people – from small-scale book publishers in Hong Kong (including some holders of non-Chinese citizenship) to Chinese business leaders – have been covertly kidnapped and returned to China.
Global Citizens, National ShirkersCAMBRIDGE – Last October, British Prime Minister Theresa May shocked many when she disparaged the idea of global citizenship.
“The most useful form of citizenship these days,” one analyst lectured her, “is one dedicated not only to the wellbeing of a Berkshire parish, say, but to the planet.”
Hence citizenship presumes an established polity – “a state or commonwealth” – of which one is a member.
Proponents of global citizenship quickly concede that they do not have a literal meaning in mind.
Global citizenship does not – and need not – crowd out parochial or national responsibilities.
Real citizenship entails interacting and deliberating with other citizens in a shared political community.
Nobody wants to repeal citizenship legislation that makes birthplace, not bloodlines, the basis of belonging, and everybody is proud that right-wing populism has never taken off in the way that it has among some of Germany’s neighbors.
A wage premium based solely on citizenship is grating.
In the wars of the Yugoslav succession we have seen a struggle between the ethnic and the civic concepts of citizenship.
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