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Citezenship

Citizenship can provide people with an identity and connection to place. What constitutes legal citizenship? And does identity or place matter to this question?

Citizenship symbolizes unity as a nation. It represents commitment to a country and its people, the values they share and the common future. It symbolizes the sense of belonging to the country of birth or where the decision has been made to make a home. (www.citizenship.gov.au) In this essay I will define legal citizenship and argue that in current times citizenship provides identity and connection to place but that issues of identity and place have become blurred in the current world of globalization.

Citizenship is a legally defining way of looking at membership of a state, the state decides who their citizens will be, they pass laws and hand out rights and obligations, giving the ‘right to have rights’ to people within that state. With those rights come responsibilities and duties than individuals must agree to a...

Posted by: Sean Wilson

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