Value Of Dual Citizenship

According to the Oxford dictionary the term citizenship can be defined as: “The state of being vested with the rights and privileges, and duties of a citizen.” In the short story ‘Borders’ by Thomas King the term citizenship is of main focus. Through the many borders that are presented within the story, King argues that citizenship overlooks culture and heritage, instead focusing on a single border: that being where the individual resides. The short story is narrated from the young boy’s perspective, as him and his mother struggle to cross the Canadian-American border to visit the young boy’s sister Latitia. The young boy and his mother are not able to cross the border

“It is not ridiculous or silly to ask for citizenship in a country that is their own.” – Pearl Gibbs, 1938

For many Canadian citizens, including Julie believe that you should only have been allowed to hold one passport from one country, in nineteen seventy seven when Canada changed their rules to, you are able to hold two passports for two different countries it caused an uproar in some particular ground and or individuals. It can be seen that Julie was very passionate about being a Canadian citizen and that she believes that being loyal to Canada was a necessary factor of being Canadian, considering this it can be concluded that Julie was patriotic, she had love and devotion for “her” country. On the contrary, certain individuals, immigrants for example, or humans with parents of different ethnic background, may disagree with this statement due to their circumstances. They may consider it a gift because they are able to live here in Canada, or they are able to see both parents, either way nationalism comes into place for both opinions. For the people who believe that dual citizenship is an intruding factor of being loyal to Canada nationalism comes into place starting with all those people who have patriotic feelings, efforts and, principles. They all have came together to form those groups, likewise, the people who do have dual citizenships. Thus, nationalism plays a fairly big role within the idea of being a true, loyal Canadian

a. Personal: Fortunately, I was born in the US; however, the South is a challenging Rubix-cube. As a result, I chose to seek global citizenship and now I am working my through my education-level like Malcolm X did after his days of incarceration (in Massachusetts) .

Life in Italy in the 1930’s caused difficulty to some Italians during that time period. During the 1930’s a large number of Italians who had opposed the fascist rule of Benito Mussolini arrived in the United States. After the news spread in Italy about the bombing of Pearl Harbour almost all Italians supported the war against Benito Mussolini. At this point, Italy was slowly becoming under the Nazi rule, the significance of a woman’s role in Italy was emphasised as they were expected to accept the fascist ideology. Girls were expected to get married and conceive lots of children. Many young women in Italy felt the pressures of politics that were dominated by men and felt that women’s rights were disappearing

The women in Italy who had unusual numbers of children lived in hardship and poverty while they were still under pressure from the public and the government to have more children. Mussolini's big plan was to have all the men serving the military and the women working in the domestic sphere. Mussolini's daughter, Edda Mussolini Ciano, was asked to return to Italy from China in Document 7. She did not appreciate Mussolini's request at all because he told her to leave just to be asked to become pregnant again. "I was angry to have been forced to leave that spellbinding, magical country and to be pregnant again…" In Document 10, a mother of 11 children who is living in poor conditions writing to the daughter of Mussolini that she is in need for help. In Document 11, an average middle class is shown. It is a family of fourteen people of all ages, from infants to adults. Most of the men in the photo seems like they are either working for Mussolini or serving the army.

The author of this piece is positing the difference between herself, and her sister. The author is an American citizen by her marriage to an American. The author’s sister who came to American a year before the author, married an Indian man from her own culture who also resides in America. The author’s sister is not a naturalized citizen and lives and works in America on her Green Card status. The author discusses how she felt the need to assimilate with her new American culture, while her sister was just residing and working in the country and still hoping to return to India when she retires. The focus of the piece is the contrast between the two sisters and their individual points of view regarding American citizenship.

The first step into becoming a citizen is to determine whether or not are eligible to become a U.S. citizen. You do that by reviewing the naturalization eligibility worksheet. Basically, this work sheet provides you with questions to help you decide if you are eligible to apply for citizenship. According to the worksheet, you must be at least 18 years old, have been living in the united states for at least 3-5 years, have traveled outside of the US for more than a year, stayed in the state that you are applying to be a citizen in for the last 3 months, know basic English, know U.S history and e.t. This is important because it helps you

It contrasts with citizenship acquired in other ways, for example by naturalization later in life. Birthright citizenship may be conferred by jus soli or jus sanguinis. Under United States law, any person born within the United States (including the territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands)[1] and subject to its jurisdiction is automatically granted U.S. citizenship,[2] as are many (though not all) children born to American citizens overseas. (Spaulding, 2010).

Thomas Reuters of FindLaw® states, “In a number of situations, if you were born to parents, at least one of whom was a U.S. citizen at the time of your birth, you automatically gained U.S. citizenship through the process of acquisition. It does not matter whether you were born on American soil or foreign.” This quote really only works in Obama’s favor keeping him in his presidential

Citizenship is a concept that is composed of three parts. The first part, described by Jean L Cohen, states that citizenship assumes the citizen ‘a juridical status of legal personhood’ (Cohen, 1999). Each individual is granted a legal status within the country to which they claim citizenship, granting them the political and social rights that the nation state holds. They are obliged to follow the laws set out within that state and therefore they obtain the right to claim the law’s protection. Secondly, this concept describes citizens to have a political responsibility within that country, they are required to vote and to be directly (or indirectly) involved in the decisions made within the nation state. Finally, the concept of citizenship states that it grants the consumer a membership in a community that holds itself to a particular ideal or identity. From this, a definition of a citizen can be derived, a member of a political community who is entitled to the rights and assumes the duties of that particular country. The definition of citizenship can be used to set the parameters of what is required of an individual in order to be a resident. If these parameters are not met, then one could argue that the political community has a right, or even a responsibility, to not allow some citizens into the country.

Citizenship is highly coveted in many nations, so coveted in fact that through only a few processes can one become a citizen for most nations, might that process be natural birth or naturalization. Citizenship and its privileges were also highly valued in Rome, except becoming a citizen was extremely difficult if not impossible. Roman citizenship also leads to assassinations and war within the Italian peninsula. There is a complex history to Roman citizenship.

The article discusses how Italy economists and sociologist have been talking about the ratio of the elderly to the young. The have few younger workers that will have to pay social security contributions for every growing number of longer-living elderly. The massive number of eastern Europeans, African and Asia immigrates have flooded into Italy helping with this serious problem. In the past the Italian government was relented to have immigrates but now they are the reason for the rising birthrates. Italian women especially working women are reluctant to have even one, let alone a second child due to the global recession. Incentives are offered for women who have a child.

Dual citizenship is an individual’s citizenship position, in which an individual is jointly considered to be a citizen of more than a country under the legislations of those countries (“Multiple citizenship”, n.d.). Multiple citizenship results as dissimilar nations utilize dissimilar basis for citizenship (‘Multiple citizenship”, n.d.).

There are over 90 countries that grant dual citizenship, some of them are United Kingdom, United States and Canada.