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Citizenship Deprivation and Statelessness
Peter J. Spiro
in Citizenship: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What terms are used to describe loss of citizenship?
“Expatriation” was the common term used historically to describe loss of citizenship, both when the loss was compelled by a ...
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Citizenship Through Birth
Peter J. Spiro
in Citizenship: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Why do states give anyone citizenship at birth?
As in all forms of human association, states are composed of individual members. In theory, states could delay the conferral of ...
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Dual Citizenship
Peter J. Spiro
in Citizenship: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Why did states once abhor dual nationality?
Dual nationality was once considered a threat to morality and to the international order. As the American diplomat George Bancroft ...
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Interrogating Citizenship and Its Alternatives
Peter J. Spiro
in Citizenship: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Is citizenship inclusive or exclusive?
In the modern era citizenship has been held out as a foundational element of constitutional democracy. It has been valorized as a marker of ...
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Introduction
Peter J. Spiro
in Citizenship: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Citizenship is a like the air we breathe; it’s all around us but often goes unnoticed. That is not a historically ordinary situation. Citizenship was once an exceptional status, a kind of ...
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Naturalization
Peter J. Spiro
in Citizenship: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Why do countries grant anyone citizenship after birth?
Naturalization implicates the allocation of citizenship after birth. In the conventional template of the modern period, a ...
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Rights and Obligations of Citizenship
Peter J. Spiro
in Citizenship: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What were the rights and obligations of citizenship in the ancient world?
Rights and obligations were deeply inscribed in the citizenship of Greece and Rome. Military service was ...
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