One of the largest concentrations of poverty in the US exists in communities at the US-Mexico border called ‘colonias.’ These informal settlements lack access to basic infrastructure.
Critics worry a citizenship question will dissuade people from answering census takers in 2020.
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Shifting parameters for citizenship are at risk of excluding millions from Indian citizenship.
Statelessness in Thailand is a complex issue: the stateless population includes members of northern hill tribes, children of migrants who were born in Thailand and refugees for bordering countries.
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Last month’s epic cave rescue has drawn attention to the issue of statelessness in Thailand - a crisis the country is trying to resolve urgently, especially for stateless children.
A homeless woman sits bundled against the cold in New York City, January 2016.
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Solving homelessness doesn’t just mean finding someone a physical home. A program run in New Haven, Connecticut, focuses on helping people see themselves as members of their communities – as citizens.
With heroism, comes citizenship.
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Citizenship is increasingly becoming something that must be ‘earned’, but this undermines basic rights.
Victorians who opposed the East West Link before the November 2014 election would have felt not much had changed when the new government announced the West Gate Tunnel in March 2015.
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Transport infrastructure has such an impact on what kind of city we become that more democratic planning is long overdue. But public consultation is typically limited and focused on design issues.
The Department of Justice wants to add a citizenship question to the next census. That could mess up the Census Bureau’s data and damage public trust in the system.
Once an EU citizen, always an EU citizen?
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A Dutch court has asked the European Court of Justice for clarification on whether British citizens should be allowed to keep their citizenship after Brexit.
A century after votes for women, what’s the next democratic frontier?
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The UK doesn’t have enough evidence to back votes for 16 and 17-year-olds.
Colin Kaepernick, centre, and his San Francisco teammates kneel during the national anthem before an NFL football game in 2016.
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Much of the discussion about “Take a Knee” has overlooked the issues of justice and social exclusion, and especially environmental matters. That’s something to think about during the Super Bowl.
Rough sleeping by EU citizens in the UK can no longer be considered an abuse of free movement rights – but the homeless are still vulnerable.
As young Australians approach voting age they need simple, clear and practical instructions about the mechanics of how government works and how to vote.
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Results from the latest report into civics and citizenship education show by the time students hit year ten, the majority of them have little knowledge about Australian civics and democracy.
How do harsher measures to counter possible terrorist attacks impact our relation to political life and to citizenship ?
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Sylvain Antichan, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (FMSH) and Lee Jarvis, University of East Anglia
Counter-terrorism policies have social and political impacts on citizenship, identity and our perception of self and the Other. Through the British case, Lee Jarvis discusses his latest research with Sylvain Antichan.