Essays on Citizenship

The issues of discussion are the type of visas each member of the Sweldon family is entitled to with respect to work place, professional expertise and citizenship. In addition, the paper shall look at the kinds of visas available for fiancés to American citizens.
Jeff is entitled to H1-B, H-4 visa since he is a skilled worker and holds a Bachelor’s Degree. He may also be entitled to L-1, L2 visa having worked for a UK company for 5 years.
Judy’s only recourse to get American citizenship is her skills in the medical profession. Because of

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Since the globalization, communication went through a massive development that includes the advent of the internet. In the history of communication, internet did not only change the systems of communications but also economics and even politics. Production area of business is not already limited by time and workforce as the internet paved way for managing workforce around the globe across time difference. Money is already wired from any point of the globe to another in a matter of minutes.
On the other hand, advocacies are not already limited in specific domestic situations. There is already an emerging solidarity

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Global Citizenship – The School of the Future

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Global Citizenship – The School of the Future

Introduction

Citizenship refers to the right of an individual to live, work, and participate politically in a specific geographic area. Global citizenship defines the individual who considers his identity with the global community superior to his identity with a particular area. This identity transcends all geographic boundaries of state, country, or city. A global citizen does not renounce his citizenship of the city, state, or country to which he belongs. He merely places his global responsibilities and duties above those towards his country (Israel, 2012). In the world of education, global

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Introduction.

Fundamentally, every nation boasts of its citizens. The word citizen connotes to the individuals or rather occupants of a specific nation that are often entitled to the benefits and privileges of a particular country. The cited individuals get habitually regarded as legal members of a specific country. In the United States, citizens are regarded and treated with utmost reverence by the state. The mentioned is because; the citizens form the backbone of the country’s growth by significantly contributing the desired skilled personnel. Citizens often engage in myriad activities that explicitly reveal their citizenship. Most importantly, the dedicated government

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Correlation matrix is an important matrix that found significant and effective as far as initiating an aspect in an effective manner. It is a thing due to which the core relationship among different aspects can be analyzed accordingly. It is a relationship matrix through which the core relationship among different variables can be analyzed accordingly.
All first, second and third hypothesis has a positive relationship in all of their variables, and the reliability factor associated with each of the matrix is positive and high, which is again a positive aspect for the companies. It can be said that the

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Dalton defines a good citizen according to the first half of the 20th century as an individual who has the qualities of loyalty, compliance, and obligation to authority and also has a “subject” mentality. Dalton describes this norm as “duty-based citizenship” (Dalton, 80) However, since the 1960s to date, the definition of a good citizen has changed to one who has higher tolerance, approaches government affairs more directly, and is concerned about the well being of other individuals in the U.S. as well as globally. This new definition of good a good citizen constitutes the new norm described as “

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After the Arab Spring revolution a lot of children suffered and were left as orphans. Some people from Arab Muslim countries, especially the Gulf States wanted to take care of the orphans. Under the Islamic law however it was a big issue. The children would not have the citizenship identity under the private law in civil law; furthermore their rights would be aggrieved. Initially, no one thought about how these government procedures would affect the children. If this issue was not addressed, the children would suffer and face many problems.
The problem regarding the name change would be in

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The aspect of citizenship in the United States of America endured a tough period due to high limitation engaged by the government. Critically, the federal constitution of America indicated that it conferred equal rights to every citizen regardless of gender among other divisions where legal and valid in the country. To the contrary, the citizen sreaped nothing from the provisions of the constitution. Critically, genderd is crimination and segregation took the priority to minor the females in the society. Information denotes that women play 40% of the nations activities apart from the family matters (Waltz, 50). Therefore, such an

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The system of adoption is practiced by western nations and was introduced by them. Western laws, such as those of the USA are rigorous when it comes to adoption matters. The child has to come before all the other interests. Gulf nations have adopted the same school of thinking when it comes to the adoption of orphans. They have put in place measures that seek to grant orphans citizenship in under the article on private law that has been passed under foreign law policies. The Arabic states, however, do not have such reforms but have an increased number of

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Reflection Paper

According to John Barry, environmental citizenship involves the integrating of individual’s activities into internal environmental systems and keeping up with the ISO standards to maintain the environment. Sustainable environment is an advancement of environmental citizenship, which involves the incorporation of environmental laws to a “greener” citizenship.
Resistance simply means criticism of the existing state laws and policies for the transformation of state structure and policies for the sake of encouraging a “greener” economy of a nation.
Liberty theory advocates for “civic republican” form of citizenship, since it will call for change that is required towards the specified, greener

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In the history of the United States Supreme Court, there are a multitude of cases that have left an indelible mark in the tapestry of American history, culture, and society. Among these landmark disputes may be found issues as divisive as reproductive health, fundamental economic freedoms, the power of the Supreme Court and, of course, race. Among these, Dred Scott v. Sanford occupies a special place. Often called as the “worst decision made by the Supreme Court”, Dred Scott v. Sanford provided an impetus for slavers to continue an injustice that had existed since the colonial era. By deciding

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- Graham Murdoch’s citizenship framework versus that of Anna McCarthy
Though this question calls for a compare and contrast of Graham Murdoch’s citizenship framework versus that of Anna McCarthy’s the two articles complement each other nicely. Graham Murdoch’s modern ideal framework for understanding citizenship argues that as an American life evolved from the simple to the modern society of today. Anna McCarthy’s The Citizen Machine: Governing by Television in 1950’s America’ describes the understanding of citizenship as a medium to a growing society of free people. The two insights complement each other well citizenship

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Discrimination can no longer be eliminated in all the systems in the world because some needs it and some wants it to be done. Since the ancient years, it is possible that there is already billions of both resolved and unresolved cases of discrimination that have been filed in different courts, not counting yet the discriminations that has happened but not spoken of.
It is the form of isolation and treatment to any group of people most especially to those who are deviant to the society. Some of these groups fall under the categories of sex, religion, physical attributes,

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The modern workplace is dynamic. The definition and the considerations directing in the definition of a good employee in the workplace are now based on the organizational citizenship behavior. Organizational citizenship behavior encompasses anything constructive and positive done by employees through their volition that supports co-workers and the company benefits. The company benefits look at the internal and the external environment (Chou & Garcia, 2011). The kinds of employees who are supportive of organizational citizenship receive recognition as among the few who would go the extra mile or go beyond and over the minimum efforts that the job requires. This

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Introduction

Birthright Citizenship Act deals with an individual’s acquirement of US citizenship because of his or her birth on the American soil. The issue of American citizenship is a subject of US federal law. Citizenship clause under fourteenth amendment of the American constitution deals with the US citizenship. This law provides US citizenship to everyone who born on the American soil. A large number of Americans including various congressmen believe that this law should be amended. Birthright citizenship Act has been introduced several times in the US congress in order to amend the original Act.
Birthright Citizenship Act has

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Introduction

The idea of European unification are rooted in the deep past, contemporary same integration trends originate in the events of the first post-war years, and the emergence of a united Europe is by far the most ambitious social process of the second half of the twentieth century. Study of its history, revealing its laws and assessing the possible effects of the subject of hundreds of scientific papers, but these topics are still relevant, as today one can hardly argue that the contradictions at all stages of development accompanying the European Union overcome and difficulties encountered on his way, leaving

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The immigration debate has been tackled and contested in numerous forums and in the media as well. Many of these issues have centered on the factors of illegal immigrants taking job opportunities from Americans to the issue of the possibility that illegal immigrants pose a heavy expense on state and Federal coffers and the possibility even that illegal immigrants contribute to criminality.
More recently, a new angle, or term, has entered the vocabulary of the immigration debate, one that presumes that illegal immigrants have found a new way to claim citizenship in the United States by way of

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Currently, one of the most heated topics of debate, capable of eliciting a strong and emotional argument, is how to best address the masses of illegal immigrants currently residing undocumented within the United States. With an estimated eleven to twelve million illegal immigrants currently living in the United States, the question of how to deal with individuals who are living and working in the country illegally is certainly no small one (Bardes 146; Schmidt 81). The basis for various viewpoints range from calm and logical economic analysis to the more primal: an impassioned and territorial, if not aggressive need

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Before I moved to the United States from Russia, I always wondered, what my life would be if I ever immigrated to another country. Would I have a hard time adapting to the culture? Would the people there be welcoming? Would the culture be significantly different from mine and would I therefore be unable to fit in? These were just some of the questions that I asked myself.
After however living on the United States for a number of years, I have slowly come to realize just how easy it has been integrating to the new culture. My outlook

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Immigration Reform

Immigration Reform
- INTRODUCTION
- Background
The United States has been the guest to many foreign visitors. On many occasions these visitors turn to an opportunity to settle in the nation. Many government regimes have accepted immigrants into the country on favorable terms. For this reason, illegal immigrants have taken up the opportunity to settle in the United States. Stanley (2013) points out that the number of illegal immigrants in the U.S has risen significantly as the issue becomes politicized. Government heads realized the importance of immigrants in retaining their political significance. For this reason, they all aim to

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Part I

Miscegenation laws are as a result of a set of developments that were witnessed in the United States. Each of these developments had outstanding influence on specific issues would have been handled if the arose in the society. One of the elements is race, which dictates that human beings are the same despite their color. The second element is marriage, which dictates that individuals should be allowed to marry the spouses of their choice regardless of differences in color. The third development is elimination of slavery, which gave equal rights to all people.
One of the ways through which

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“We should be the pro-legal immigration party. A party that has a positive platform and agenda on how we can create a legal immigration system that works for immigrants and works for America.” This was a quote by Florida Senator Marco Rubio pertaining to the issue of immigration. When it comes to immigration, there are many things that have to be considered. What country the person is loyal to is among those questions. In many cases, there is always some loyalty to the country that they came from. The thing that has to be remembered is that there has

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Organizational Citizenship Behaviours (OCBs) refers to the constructive and positive behaviours of an organisation’s employees that are meant to support the other co-workers and reap benefits for the company. Boiral in his article reveals that environmental issues are complex and when coupled with the human aspects they need to be considered in order to decentralize and engage OCBs. He identifies various behaviours like promoting social legitimacy, eco-efficiency, civic virtue and obeying organisation’s rules and regulations. The Diageo group of companies is a global producer and distributor of premium drinks and has engaged its employees in OCBs. The

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Corporate Employee Citizenship

Introduction
In the day-to-day activities of the business, it interacts with various categories of people. It is operated by employees who form the human resource of the company, customers and suppliers. The business has to understand how to handle the interactions to keep the relationship beneficial. On this note, the business must engage in good corporate citizenship and ethics in its workplace. The workplace is usually full of activities and interaction where clients engage the business employees in their quest for services offered by the business. This paper analyzes corporate citizenship and ethics in a business setting. It covers

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Australian citizenry experienced tremendous transition from white majority to multiculturalism. At least three factors have led to this dynamism and they include politics, race and culture (Cox, 2010). The history of Australia dates back to January 1st 1901, when the country came into existence as well as a self-governing entity (Dunn et al, 2010). In the early 19th Century, Australian viewed themselves as pre-dominant Anglo-Saxon emigrants. This was the foundation of an Australian citizen, which explains their distinct physical manifestation, culture and racial features (Cox, 2010). This inevitably led to the introduction of Immigration Restriction Act 1901, which became

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Orientalism by Edward Said

Edward Said is an expert in the field of post-colonial studies. He annotates and denotes the word Orientalism as the false cultural exaggerations and assumptions of the western countries. These assumptions, according to Edward Said, facilitate the misinterpretation of what is referred to as the Orient in general and the Islamic nations (Middle East) in particular. The importunate and subtle Eurocentric chauvinism against the Muslims and the Arabs together with their culture is a very contemptuous attitude especially from the western world. The over ambitious Europe and the United States, according to Edward Said, has indiscriminately subjected Arabs and

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Introduction

The United States Constitution was written more than 200 years ago and it has been used as the foundation for the government. The constitution has been and still remains the most durable political agreement in the history of the world. Even thought an inspiring document, its creation was not that easy but controversial. Its framers were divided over a number of major issues which led to lengthy arguments when it was being written. After its creation the Constitution still remains controversial. It has turned out to be the epicenter of Civil Rights activism, conflict between state sovereignty and national

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Introduction

The America constitution entitles every citizen the duty of paying income taxes. The criteria use to implement the law on taxes payer has created a feeling of unfairness. The outcome from the taxation practice has resulted in taxpayers developing an interest or idea of renouncing their U.S citizenship in order to evade paying the income taxes.
Renouncing of US citizenship is justified in the immigration and nationality act. It therefore implies that most of the US citizens have escaped paying their taxes. This is because it is a right for every citizen; it therefore plays a very fundamental role

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Introduction

It is true that Asians presence on the American soil highlighted various fundamental cleavages in the American society. These Asian immigrants faced hostility in their new land. Bhagat Singh Thind was actually an Indian- American Sikh lecturer and writer on spirituality. He was an immigrant to United States and was involved in a crucial legal battle over Indians rights to obtain United States citizenship in a case titled Bhagat Singh Thind case. Therefore, Thind was the defendant in this case, which would result in exclusion of all the Asians from procuring naturalized citizenship. Up to the year 1923, South

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Historical background

Bhagat Singh Thind case was filed by an Indian origin man Bhagat Singh Thind in which he wanted the supreme court of the United States to declare that he was eligible to become the US citizen by Naturalization (261 U.S 204,1923).In the case, Thind argued that he was an Indian who belonged to the Aryan group and therefore he could be categorized as of Caucasian race (white) based on Aryan theory that had been formulated and grouped human beings into five racial groups which included the whites referred to as Caucasians. In the case the supreme court

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Introduction

The US government takes renunciation of US citizenship with a lot of seriousness. Whoever wishes to renounce citizenship has to do so by following the right procedure. The person must appear in person at an embassy of the US. After renouncing citizenship, the petitioner loses the rights that are enjoyed by the citizens of the US. It therefore becomes impossible for the petitioner to freely travel and enjoy privileges in the US. The US allows individuals with a positive intention to renounce citizenship but not those who are trying to evade their responsibility to the tax department or the

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There are various philosophical and political perspectives as to the concept of citizenship. This paper will seek to canvas this vital concept in line with civil republicanism. The paper will also examine the extent of social capital literature contribution on matters affects or seek to influence citizenship. Abraham Lincoln argued that there are essential factors that must be present in a mature democracy in order for the true fruits of democracy to be realized. These include values of liberty, justice, equality and opportunity. He further argued that the despite these values being inherent in any democracy, they are not

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