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...found that—contrary to many of the arguments made by Weatherhead University Professor Samuel P. Huntington in his recent work, Who Are We?—these undocumented immigrants developed a type of citizenship not described by their legal status by becoming active members in their communities...
...examining the ways in which undocumented immigrants are already living lives that have features we associate with citizenship—involvement in civic activities, political participation through activism and (clearly) economic integration—Hernandez is showing how merely legal understandings of citizenship are out of step with people’s lived reality,” Christopher Sturr, a lecturer in social studies who advised Hernandez’s thesis, wrote in an e-mail...
Frustrated with the limited opportunities as refugees in Slovenia, the Peljto family left for Canada after two-and-a-half years of financial struggling. When Haso Peljto found work as a software engineer in Minneapolis a year later, the family moved to the U.S. hoping to earn citizenship...
They make it sound almost like Lent: "the summer driving season." It sounds compulsory or something, as though I might lose my citizenship if I haven't clocked at least 1,200 miles of continuous interstate travel by June 30 and finalized plans to double that number by Labor Day. This shouldn't be a problem for me, fortunately, because I love taking road trips in any season, but what if sometime around the end of May, say, I'm physically incapacitated? Will my absence on the roads be noticed...
...should be alarmed when David Wu, the only Chinese-American to ever be elected to Congress, has his citizenship repeatedly questioned and is denied entry to the US Department of Energy even after showing his Congressional ID. We should be furious when our society’s idea of entertainment is a Saturday Night Live sketch in which guest star Alec Baldwin quips, “I don’t pretend to know who these Chinese people are. I know they’re small, maybe one or two feet high. I know they sound funny when they talk...