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Faith Fatisal Andong
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Citizenship can be said to be a form of identity. The French revolutionaries labeled it as a means of equality. Every continent, country or nation has viewed citizenship in a different dimension, looking at citizenship from different angles. Citizenship is a technical process in terms of rights. It was born in a way of excluding others from a particular society or association and this makes it problematic because it became a struggle of association. Ethnicities were transformed into nationalities throughout Europe during the nineteenth century. Most of Western Europe was made up of nation states by 1900. Discussing the genealogy of citizenship, E. Isin, states that the absence of citizenship in early civilization …show more content…
Globalization is now the approach of an infinite series to a finite limit in which states become overly diluted, lacking the necessary skills to protect their citizens against the global force that compels them. Pfister stated that globalization thus has changed the way the world as a whole view citizenship, it is a process, never ending but rather improving. This adds a light note to the context in which citizens no longer have strong belief and immigrants have less interest in pursuing citizenship status in the place in which they reside. Citizenship is slowly loosing its status due to the emergence of globalization, not only has globalization affected citizenship, it has affected its cultural identity. Globalization has been successful in transmitting economic opportunity, human rights and has successfully improved ways to obtain information, technology as well as goods and services for people internationally. Most critics give evidence that these benefits come with its consequences which is the sacrificing of cultural identity for western way of life. The emergence of globalization has said to have put an obstruction on the cultural identities of people due to the more acceptance of …show more content…
The increase in social rights is as a result of the association of welfare growth of the nation state which was the basis for incorporating fresh members into the nation state. In addition to the rise of globalization, the conception of citizenship as a membership form of identity in the nation state has changed. The growth in the amount of countries approving dual citizenship and non-citizen rights has made naturalization of citizenship easier. Mike Bottery stated that a person can become “French” after one or two generation. Bottery further stated that in the case of the Germans, citizenship and nationhood came to be seen more as a matter of blood and thus more exclusive. Further stating that while presently, governments do not wish to return to the social democratic welfare policies of the mid twentieth century, there is still a good evidence to suggest that states are more interested than previously in taking responsibility and in central direction. For this reason he says lie in the rise of forces of globalization. Mike Bottery identifies economic and political globalization as direct threats to the nation state, saying that while economic globalization has led to one form of threat to nation state legitimacy, another form political
Faith Fatisal Andong
4354552
Citizenship can be said to be a form of identity. The French revolutionaries labeled it as a means of equality. Every continent, country or nation has viewed citizenship in a different dimension, looking at citizenship from different angles. Citizenship is a technical process in terms of rights. It was born in a way of excluding others from a particular society or association and this makes it problematic because it became a struggle of association. Ethnicities were transformed into nationalities throughout Europe during the nineteenth century. Most of Western Europe was made up of nation states by 1900. Discussing the genealogy of citizenship, E. Isin, states that the absence of citizenship in early civilization …show more content…
Globalization is now the approach of an infinite series to a finite limit in which states become overly diluted, lacking the necessary skills to protect their citizens against the global force that compels them. Pfister stated that globalization thus has changed the way the world as a whole view citizenship, it is a process, never ending but rather improving. This adds a light note to the context in which citizens no longer have strong belief and immigrants have less interest in pursuing citizenship status in the place in which they reside. Citizenship is slowly loosing its status due to the emergence of globalization, not only has globalization affected citizenship, it has affected its cultural identity. Globalization has been successful in transmitting economic opportunity, human rights and has successfully improved ways to obtain information, technology as well as goods and services for people internationally. Most critics give evidence that these benefits come with its consequences which is the sacrificing of cultural identity for western way of life. The emergence of globalization has said to have put an obstruction on the cultural identities of people due to the more acceptance of …show more content…
The increase in social rights is as a result of the association of welfare growth of the nation state which was the basis for incorporating fresh members into the nation state. In addition to the rise of globalization, the conception of citizenship as a membership form of identity in the nation state has changed. The growth in the amount of countries approving dual citizenship and non-citizen rights has made naturalization of citizenship easier. Mike Bottery stated that a person can become “French” after one or two generation. Bottery further stated that in the case of the Germans, citizenship and nationhood came to be seen more as a matter of blood and thus more exclusive. Further stating that while presently, governments do not wish to return to the social democratic welfare policies of the mid twentieth century, there is still a good evidence to suggest that states are more interested than previously in taking responsibility and in central direction. For this reason he says lie in the rise of forces of globalization. Mike Bottery identifies economic and political globalization as direct threats to the nation state, saying that while economic globalization has led to one form of threat to nation state legitimacy, another form political