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Immigrant Rights and Citizenship
Overtime, citizenship has gained the reputation as a privilege as well as a status accruing immense possibilities. Regardless of the actuality that this right seems applicable and available to every person, the aspect of nationality binds it. Undeniably, the condition of being national constitutes a category that is fundamentally specific and exclusionary. This correlates particularly to the situations faced by minorities and immigrants in their respective foreign domains. Simply, the privilege of citizenship is a complex and difficult aspect for these foreign groups to attain due to the non-recognition emanating from the bounding nature of nationality. Irrespective of its restrictive nature, the facet of nationality slowly erodes from society based on the movement away from cultural, social and political mores and the embrace of novel ideals that enable minorities to attain citizenship in the countries they inhabit.
In the past, attaining citizenship for minorities was a complicated procedure that required considerable legal intervention. Over the course of years, the regulations guiding citizenship in numerous countries were complex especially in relation to immigrants and their resulting minority communities. However, the upsurge of globalization has enabled immigrants to attain this privilege in the contemporary milieu. The reason for this is in accordance to the barriers of national homogeneity that have eroded based on this social movement. Undeniably, the rapid breakdown of nationality has enabled immigrants to attain citizenship. An illustration of this breakdown is in accordance to the amendments of laws that guided the acquisition of citizenship. At first, nationality or citizenship laws depended solely on descent of the person and birth. However, the introduction of residence for second generation and naturalization as factors capable of attaining nationality has enabled immigrants to achieve citizenship.
In addition to this, further flexibility in citizenship laws are evident based on the erosion of singular citizenship in numerous countries. The principle of dual citizenship has enabled minorities to be civilians of their respective emigrant countries. Indeed, immigrants are able to achieve this privilege via mixed marriages and the resultant binational offspring. The adoption of this approach is possible mainly due to the need to protect women from ethnic discriminatory practices such as racism and sexism, which marginalized them considerably. Based on this occurrence, it is certain that gender also plays a significant role in attaining citizenship for minorities. This is because past citizenship regulations recognized men as the principal immigrants and women and their respective children as mere dependants. However, the spread of practices aimed at protecting women and their offspring from discrimination has necessitated the modification of citizenship laws in order to cater for them as equal immigrants.
In conclusion, it is apparent that acquiring full citizenship requires extending beyond social, political and civil privileges. In relation to the issues faced by women minorities in terms of nationality, minorities of both sexes encounter the disadvantages originating from exclusion from these stated privileges. Based on this, it is impossible for them to attain nationality through equality solely due to the insignificant effect that this move poses on relegating racism and sexism. Therefore, such minorities, specifically women, require certain sets of privileges in order to identify the original forms responsible for the development of exclusion and oppression. Irrespective of these realizations, it is imperative for policy makers to consider such issues in order to have a significant abstract of the problems faced in migration. Indeed, poor resolution of these nationality issues only enhances the problems that minorities face irrespective of the motives behind the migratory journeys.