Citizenship is membership in the political community of a sovereign state, carrying a bundle of legal rights and obligations owed between the individual and the state, along with an expectation of allegiance. Citizenship is often used interchangeably with nationality in everyday English, but international law treats the two as conceptually distinct dimensions of collective membership, with nationality describing a person's international legal bond to a state and citizenship describing full membership in its political community.
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Historian Geoffrey Hosking in his 2005 Modern Scholar lecture course suggested that citizenship in ancient Greece arose from an appreciation for the importance of freedom.
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Citizenship is a membership in the political community of and allegiance to a sovereign state.
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Historically, populations of states were mostly subjects, while citizenship was a particular status which originated in the rights of urban populations, like the rights of the male public of cities and republics, particularly ancient city-states, giving rise to a civitas and the social class of the burgher or bourgeoisie.
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He has written academic works on social theory, immigration, citizenship, nationalism, ethnicity, religion, diasporas, gender, populism, and digital hyperconnectivity.
Wikipedia: Renato Rosaldo
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Rosaldo conducted research on cultural citizenship in San Jose, California, from 1989 to 1996, and he contributed two chapters (one co-written with William V.
Wikipedia: Saskia Sassen
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"The repositioning of citizenship and alienage: Emergent subjects and spaces for politics", Globalizations, volume 2, number 1, (2005), p.
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