CITIZENSHIP ( 14th May Lesson)

This is the lattest topic in the course.

1. What did I learn?

The concept of Citizenship given in the presentation is:

“The quality of an individual's response to membership in a community;Citizenship status often implies some responsibilities and duties.”

The ideas of Citizenship, was at the beginning developed by the Greeks in the polis and city-states and by the Romans.

Citizenship and Passport can be obtained by different ways:

• Birth in the jurisdiction
• Lineage (through parents and grandparents)
• Marriage
• Naturalization
• Religious affiliation (e.g: law of return to Israel)
• Meritorious service economic benefit to the country.

Once again, the concept of multiculturalismans assimilation seen at the beginning of the course come up, since the interaction among differents cultures ans the adoption of a major culture´s features are take into account in the citizenship issue. Multiculturalism and assimilation come with the concept of Globalization, which allow in modern societies to adopt a multitude of life and lifestyles of people.

The point is, preparing future professionals to be open - minded in a globalized world, in wich is unavoidable the cultural interaction any time.

2. Question: What is multiple citizenship? Why does it exist?

3. Answer: Multiple citizenship, or multiple nationality, is a status in which a person is concurrently regarded as a citizen under the laws of more than one state. Dual citizenship (being a citizen of two nations), or dual nationality, is the most common type of multiple citizenship.

Multiple citizenships exist because different countries use different, and not necessarily mutually exclusive, criteria to bestow citizenship. Thus, a person becomes a citizen of multiple countries because countries, not persons, decide who is and who is not a citizen.

SOURCES:

• Citizenship´s Presentation.
• www.encarta.com
• http://www.citizenship.gov.au