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...agree with the established process of immigrants gaining citizenship and, with that, the right to vote," said Joe Grassi, a school committee member who opposed the measure...
...offer. That "the most generous offer Israel has ever made" calls for Israeli military control over one of Islam's three holiest sites (the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem), the perpetuation of a system of apartheid where Palestinians and Arabs can aspire to be no more than second-class citizenship and the continued defiance of numerous U.N. resolutions says more about Israel's problematic commitment to peace than it does about the Palestinians...
...plight of the Aboriginal people. And yet many white Australians claim they did not know until recently of the poor treatment and the political plight of the Aborigines. I lived in Australia for three years but left because of the extreme racial prejudice there. I still retain my Australian citizenship, but I went back to India. If you think South Africa is prejudiced, racist or xenophobic, think again! It pales in comparison with Australia. AMARJIT SINGH New Delhi...
These immigrants are trapped because some countries, unlike the United States, do not automatically grant citizenship and the right of return upon birth. Kestutis Zadvydas was born in a displaced persons camp in U.S.-occupied Germany shortly after World War II, to parents from a region contested by Lithuania and Russia. Having finished a prison term for a narcotics offense and now scheduled for deportation, he has nowhere to go: Germany, which recognizes citizenship by blood rather than territory, refuses to acknowledge him as a citizen, and Lithuania has demanded documentation of his parents' residence that can no longer...
...some much smaller political/cultural/religious entity. The trauma of the slave trade and slavery meant that in the New World Europeans added "whiteness" to their self-concept. Africans on both sides of the Atlantic also broadened their concepts of collective identity. European colonies extended rights of denization (a preliminary to citizenship) to those coming from any part of Europe ? including Jews ? before such rights were available in the respective mother countries. Evidence from slave ship revolts ? collected as part of the transatlantic slave trade database project (now available on CD-ROM from Cambridge University Press) ? suggests that African cohesiveness in resistance...