Citizenship
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Indeed, the implications of losing one’s
citizenship
are enormous.
Perhaps the campaign against Dominicans of Haitian descent will stop when the Dominican judiciary acknowledges that the retroactive denial of
citizenship
violates fundamental human rights law.
Indeed, governments that are built on clientelism instead of
citizenship
don’t need to respond at all.
McCain, Clinton and Obama support “comprehensive reform” — code words for the ying and yang of managing anti-immigrant sentiment here: give Americans some promises of secure borders and they’ll swallow giving the undocumented a path to
citizenship.
But he was also threatened, imprisoned, attacked, and stripped of his
citizenship
in Belarus.
In Iraq, their equivalents were very often Latinos for whom integration into American society – including, for many, the promise of permanent residence or
citizenship
– was at least as important as toppling Saddam Hussein.
To make recommendations relevant to a review of the UDHR at 70, New York University convened the Global
Citizenship
Commission (of which I was chair) under the auspices of John Sexton and Paul Boghossian.
Critics of the spreading practice of
citizenship
testing certainly think so; in fact, they go so far as to lament the rise of a new “repressive liberalism” – Western states’ efforts to achieve democratic and liberal ends with increasingly illiberal means.
Citizenship
tests are an integral part of this program; and, in the eyes of critics, they resemble “loyalty oaths” and other intolerant measures traditionally associated with the anti-communist witch-hunts of McCarthyism in 1950’s America.
Of course, it is true that birthright citizens live their lives – and retain their
citizenship
– without ever being tested on the basics of their political systems.
So,
citizenship
tests – rather than being repressive – can actually be empowering, if they make immigrants aware of rights and possibilities for participation.
In the end,
citizenship
exams, rather than really being “tests” in any meaningful sense at all, are tools for communication.
While they may be right, I believe that something still can be done to improve the situation – for example, by resorting to cantons and dual
citizenship.
As Hitler noted, it also favored “Nordic-German” candidates for immigration and eventual US
citizenship
over Southern and Eastern Europeans, including Jews.
Casting one’s ballot in parliament to introduce censorship or to deny full
citizenship
rights to minorities are not democratic acts, even if they follow democratic form.
When it is safe to return home, those who have not obtained permanent residency or
citizenship
should do so.
But, as someone of Jewish heritage who is currently reclaiming his German citizenship, I would argue that the re-emergence of anti-Semitism in Germany has more to do with the country’s global future than with its murderous past.
And what a gargantuan seal it is, coming in the corpulent form of the actor Gérard Depardieu, who sought – and has now received – Russian
citizenship.
It provided refuge to the Dalai Lama when he fled Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1959, granted asylum (and eventually Indian citizenship) to more than 110,000 Tibetan refugees, and permitted them to create a government-in-exile (albeit one that India does not recognize) in the picturesque Himalayan hill town of Dharamsala.
I am myself a green card holder – that is, a legal permanent resident of the US without
citizenship.
The history of colonialism in western Europe and Japan, of slavery in the US, shows that as liberal democratic ideals take root in a society, the rights of
citizenship
cannot be denied to colonial subjects of members or certain groups.
Over the years, we have learned that the real challenge is not just to enroll children in school, but to help them to acquire the skills necessary for employment, entrepreneurship, family life, and
citizenship.
While more than 70% of Turks believe Syrians will one day become permanent residents in Turkey, nearly 76% oppose giving Syrians Turkish
citizenship.
Those that cannot pass the market’s starting line, either because they are too poor or too uneducated, and who lack modern skills, are politically free but consigned to a kind of permanent second class
citizenship.
It’s striking how difficult America makes it to vote, to exercise the basic right of
citizenship.
But elections are neither
citizenship
tests nor exams in master’s programs in public administration.
Schools are the first places where we can promote inclusive
citizenship
in Middle Eastern countries.
The regime’s darkest response, an anti-Semitic purge, resulted in an exodus of more than 10,000 people, who were also deprived of their
citizenship.
It is largely because the idea of common European
citizenship
is often understood by analogy to that of national
citizenship
that further European integration engenders so much fear and opposition.
The singular "people" that defines
citizenship
in a traditional nation-state could be forged only by plunging Europe into appalling repression and war lasting generations, if not centuries.
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