United States nationality law

Statelessness is a problem which continues to persist in our world. Today, more than 10 million people worldwide are affected by this issue.A stateless person is one who does not posses a link between the state and themselves. They do not posses and citizenship, declining them the right to participate in the political processes. All around the world today, there are many people who are not considered nationals of a state due to various reasons, including discrimination against a group of people, and mass migrations during a time of chaos and war. The Delegation of Switzerland has implemented many policies in it’s country to reduce the amount of stateless people. Research has shown that over half of the population residing in Switzerland is…

The second criteria is that citizenship allows for rewards such as a share in public distribution and the third characteristic is that citizenship acknowledges the individual as a family member among a “super-family” (Patterson, 58). Also, the astos included civil rights only, whereas the politai had full political citizenship. Astoi was used to explain the communal sense of citizenship like a relative within the family, while politai was used to explain the relationship between a citizen and…

Nikita Thompson A new asylum paradigm? Globalization, migration and the uncertain future of the international refugee regime Jeff Crisp In our world, we can find more than 10 million people who, when asked where home is, can only respond that they are stateless. This large cluster of stateless people live and reside in lands where they do not have legal membership, given by the state to them. Due to this lack of membership within a state that an individual is occupying, they lose the legal…

Citizenship, with its attendant rights and duties has been an ever constant in human society since the earliest ideas of democracy and the rights of mankind were recorded in the Greek city-states of antiquity. As human society has evolved with the passing of the centuries so too has our perspective on citizenship, into what we now recognise as our modern interpretation of the expectations and rights of the citizen within the nation or state to which they belong. “Citizenship refers not only to a…

been allowed to were niqabs and burkas prior to the ban (National Post, 2015). This kind of statement reflects attitudes steeped in racism, sexism and cultural relativism which unfortunately are still quite common in our society. The issue of wearing the niqab during citizenship ceremonies brought to the forefront issues in Canadian society with regard to gender, race and to a lesser extent class and what it means to be Canadian and who determines what is acceptable and unacceptable within our…

benefits of living in the United States, which is obviously something that Middle-Eastern Muslims cannot. No religious persecution, no worrying about serious conflict arising in your front yard, and perhaps most importantly, no discriminatory acts against you. This seems like a good place for a woman who has faced degradation for years in her hometown, but in reality it is not as perfect as it seems. In the United States, Muslim women are a minority by no stretch of the imagination and this can…

The main reason immigration was booming during the mid-1900s would be because of the Canadian Citizenship Act in 1947. A Canadian Council for Refugees stated in their timeline, “Canadian Citizenship Act adopted, creating a separate Canadian citizenship, distinct from British (Canada was the first Commonwealth country to do so)”. By having the Canadian Citizen Act in place, it allowed people to be classified as Canadians. The book Canadian Decades 1940s states, “Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie…

Gilles Havard’s article “Protection” and “Unequal Alliance”: The French Conception of Sovereignty over Indians in New France describes the way Indigenous people living in New France were perceived by the French authorities, the degree of citizenship that Indigenous people were given, and how these concepts of sovereignty affected the Indigenous communities both positively and negatively. In France, citizens were considered “regnicoles” (Havard, 2013) – citizens who had the full breadth of the…

of modern Britain warped during the 1940’s. The foundation of a social welfare republic and the rise of the labour party created a nation that was not focused on old world ideals of noble cause, monetarism and subsistent privilege. In the new welfare state, the four pillars of centralized government planning, nationalized resource industries, cradle to the grave social security and focus…

intel focused on German armaments, the antitank gun for example (Spy Museum). She was the first female special agent in the British military. Therefore, not only did Christine pave the way for herself, but she paved the way for all other women that desired a position as a part of the British military. While Christine's work was very important, there were more events happening in the world. In the European Theater, during the year 1940, Adolf Hitler invaded various European countries such as…