The Road To Citizenship

Author : Sofya Aptekar
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813575445

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The Road to Citizenship by Sofya Aptekar Pdf

Between 2000 and 2011, eight million immigrants became American citizens. In naturalization ceremonies large and small these new Americans pledged an oath of allegiance to the United States, gaining the right to vote, serve on juries, and hold political office; access to certain jobs; and the legal rights of full citizens. In The Road to Citizenship, Sofya Aptekar analyzes what the process of becoming a citizen means for these newly minted Americans and what it means for the United States as a whole. Examining the evolution of the discursive role of immigrants in American society from potential traitors to morally superior “supercitizens,” Aptekar’s in-depth research uncovers considerable contradictions with the way naturalization works today. Census data reveal that citizenship is distributed in ways that increasingly exacerbate existing class and racial inequalities, at the same time that immigrants’ own understandings of naturalization defy accepted stories we tell about assimilation, citizenship, and becoming American. Aptekar contends that debates about immigration must be broadened beyond the current focus on borders and documentation to include larger questions about the definition of citizenship. Aptekar’s work brings into sharp relief key questions about the overall system: does the current naturalization process accurately reflect our priorities as a nation and reflect the values we wish to instill in new residents and citizens? Should barriers to full membership in the American polity be lowered? What are the implications of keeping the process the same or changing it? Using archival research, interviews, analysis of census and survey data, and participant observation of citizenship ceremonies, The Road to Citizenship demonstrates the ways in which naturalization itself reflects the larger operations of social cohesion and democracy in America.

Author : Sofya Aptekar
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780813569550

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The Road to Citizenship by Sofya Aptekar Pdf

Between 2000 and 2011, eight million immigrants became American citizens. In naturalization ceremonies large and small these new Americans pledged an oath of allegiance to the United States, gaining the right to vote, serve on juries, and hold political office; access to certain jobs; and the legal rights of full citizens. In The Road to Citizenship, Sofya Aptekar analyzes what the process of becoming a citizen means for these newly minted Americans and what it means for the United States as a whole. Examining the evolution of the discursive role of immigrants in American society from potential traitors to morally superior “supercitizens,” Aptekar’s in-depth research uncovers considerable contradictions with the way naturalization works today. Census data reveal that citizenship is distributed in ways that increasingly exacerbate existing class and racial inequalities, at the same time that immigrants’ own understandings of naturalization defy accepted stories we tell about assimilation, citizenship, and becoming American. Aptekar contends that debates about immigration must be broadened beyond the current focus on borders and documentation to include larger questions about the definition of citizenship. Aptekar’s work brings into sharp relief key questions about the overall system: does the current naturalization process accurately reflect our priorities as a nation and reflect the values we wish to instill in new residents and citizens? Should barriers to full membership in the American polity be lowered? What are the implications of keeping the process the same or changing it? Using archival research, interviews, analysis of census and survey data, and participant observation of citizenship ceremonies, The Road to Citizenship demonstrates the ways in which naturalization itself reflects the larger operations of social cohesion and democracy in America.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Immigrants
ISBN : IND:30000125975775

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Welcome to the United States by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sara Howell
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781477767351

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The Path to Citizenship by Sara Howell Pdf

Many Americans are citizens because they were born here. But not everyone who lives here is a citizen. Ease into the process of applying for citizenship with help from this informative volume. Accompanying photos and captions familiarize readers with the citizenship test, the character check, and many other facets of the path to citizenship.

Author : Frances Ross Dearborn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105049187458

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The Road to Citizenship by Frances Ross Dearborn Pdf

Author : Richard Bellamy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192802538

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Citizenship: A Very Short Introduction by Richard Bellamy Pdf

Interest in citizenship has never been higher. But what does it mean to be a citizen in a modern, complex community? Richard Bellamy approaches the subject of citizenship from a political perspective and, in clear and accessible language, addresses the complexities behind this highly topical issue.

Author : Simon Duffy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Citizenship
ISBN : 0954306821

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Keys to Citizenship by Simon Duffy Pdf

A guide to getting good support services for people with learning difficulties.

Author : James Holston
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0822322749

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Cities and Citizenship by James Holston Pdf

An expanded edition of the Public Culture special issue, which explores current meanings and contestations of citizenship in relation to the urban experience.

Author : U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0160831180

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Learn about the United States by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Pdf

"Learn About the United States" is intended to help permanent residents gain a deeper understanding of U.S. history and government as they prepare to become citizens. The product presents 96 short lessons, based on the sample questions from which the civics portion of the naturalization test is drawn. An audio CD that allows students to listen to the questions, answers, and civics lessons read aloud is also included. For immigrants preparing to naturalize, the chance to learn more about the history and government of the United States will make their journey toward citizenship a more meaningful one.

Author : Sharmila Rudrappa
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0813533716

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Ethnic Routes to Becoming American by Sharmila Rudrappa Pdf

The author examines the paths South Asian immigrants in Chicago take toward assimilation in the late 20th century United States. She examines two ethnic institutions to show how immigrant activism ironically abets these immigrants' assimilation.

Author : United States. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Citizenship
ISBN : UIUC:30112063401241

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The Road to U. S. A. Citizenship by United States. Immigration and Naturalization Service Pdf

Author : David Goodhart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781787382688

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The Road to Somewhere by David Goodhart Pdf

A robust and timely investigation into the political and moral fault-lines that divide Brexit Britain and Trump's America -- and how a new settlement may be achieved. Several decades of greater economic and cultural openness in the West have not benefited all our citizens. Among those who have been left behind, a populist politics of culture and identity has successfully challenged the traditional politics of Left and Right, creating a new division: between the mobile "achieved" identity of the people from Anywhere, and the marginalized, roots-based identity of the people from Somewhere. This schism accounts for the Brexit vote, the election of Donald Trump, the decline of the center-left, and the rise of populism across Europe. David Goodhart's compelling investigation of the new global politics reveals how the Somewhere backlash is a democratic response to the dominance of Anywhere interests, in everything from mass higher education to mass immigration.

Author : Ayelet Shachar,Rainer Bauboeck,Irene Bloemraad,Maarten Vink
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192528421

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The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship by Ayelet Shachar,Rainer Bauboeck,Irene Bloemraad,Maarten Vink Pdf

Contrary to predictions that it would become increasingly redundant in a globalizing world, citizenship is back with a vengeance. The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship brings together leading experts in law, philosophy, political science, economics, sociology, and geography to provide a multidisciplinary, comparative discussion of different dimensions of citizenship: as legal status and political membership; as rights and obligations; as identity and belonging; as civic virtues and practices of engagement; and as a discourse of political and social equality or responsibility for a common good. The contributors engage with some of the oldest normative and substantive quandaries in the literature, dilemmas that have renewed salience in today's political climate. As well as setting an agenda for future theoretical and empirical explorations, this Handbook explores the state of citizenship today in an accessible and engaging manner that will appeal to a wide academic and non-academic audience. Chapters highlight variations in citizenship regimes practiced in different countries, from immigrant states to 'non-western' contexts, from settler societies to newly independent states, attentive to both migrants and those who never cross an international border. Topics include the 'selling' of citizenship, multilevel citizenship, in-between statuses, citizenship laws, post-colonial citizenship, the impact of technological change on citizenship, and other cutting-edge issues. This Handbook is the major reference work for those engaged with citizenship from a legal, political, and cultural perspective. Written by the most knowledgeable senior and emerging scholars in their fields, this comprehensive volume offers state-of-the-art analyses of the main challenges and prospects of citizenship in today's world of increased migration and globalization. Special emphasis is put on the question of whether inclusive and egalitarian citizenship can provide political legitimacy in a turbulent world of exploding social inequality and resurgent populism.

Author : Gabrielle Moser
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-29
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780271082875

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Projecting Citizenship by Gabrielle Moser Pdf

In Projecting Citizenship, Gabrielle Moser gives a comprehensive account of an unusual project produced by the British government’s Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee at the beginning of the twentieth century—a series of lantern slide lectures that combined geography education and photography to teach schoolchildren around the world what it meant to look and to feel like an imperial citizen. Through detailed archival research and close readings, Moser elucidates the impact of this vast collection of photographs documenting the land and peoples of the British Empire, circulated between 1902 and 1945 in classrooms from Canada to Hong Kong, from the West Indies to Australia. Moser argues that these photographs played a central role in the invention and representation of imperial citizenship. She shows how citizenship became a photographable and teachable subject by tracing the intended readings of the images that the committee hoped to impart to viewers and analyzing how spectators may have used their encounters with these photographs for protest and resistance. Interweaving political and economic history, history of pedagogy, and theories of citizenship with a consideration of the aesthetic and affective dimensions of viewing the lectures, Projecting Citizenship offers important insights into the social inequalities and visual language of colonial rule.

Author : Roel Meijer,James N. Sater,Zahra R. Babar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429603280

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Routledge Handbook of Citizenship in the Middle East and North Africa by Roel Meijer,James N. Sater,Zahra R. Babar Pdf

This comprehensive Handbook gives an overview of the political, social, economic and legal dimensions of citizenship in the Middle East and North Africa from the nineteenth century to the present. The terms citizen and citizenship are mostly used by researchers in an off-hand, self-evident manner. A citizen is assumed to have standard rights and duties that everyone enjoys. However, citizenship is a complex legal, social, economic, cultural, ethical and religious concept and practice. Since the rise of the modern bureaucratic state, in each country of the Middle East and North Africa, citizenship has developed differently. In addition, rights are highly differentiated within one country, ranging from privileged, underprivileged and discriminated citizens to non-citizens. Through its dual nature as instrument of state control, as well as a source of citizen rights and entitlements, citizenship provides crucial insights into state-citizen relations and the services the state provides, as well as the way citizens respond to these actions. This volume focuses on five themes that cover the crucial dimensions of citizenship in the region: Historical trajectory of citizenship since the nineteenth century until independence Creation of citizenship from above by the state Different discourses of rights and forms of contestation developed by social movements and society Mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion Politics of citizenship, nationality and migration Covering the main dimensions of citizenship, this multidisciplinary book is a key resource for students and scholars interested in citizenship, politics, economics, history, migration and refugees in the Middle East and North Africa.