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After Brexit, we need inclusive conversations.
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In the face of recent political events in Britain and America, sci-fi imaginings of the ‘citizens of the future’ have taken on a new resonance.
Pro-statehood supporters at the seaside Capitol in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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Over the years, Puerto Ricans have in fact been granted three different types of U.S. citizenship, but questions about their rights and equal treatment as citizens still remain.
Urban and social art at the first edition of ‘Neighbours’ festival in Katowice, in 2014.
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As Poland faces more and more social divisions, citizen movements develop through informal activities to reinforce a sense of community and belonging.
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In the face of planetary problems such as climate change, does national citizenship lose its meaning?
Worried about the future.
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MPs rejected an amendment to the Article 50 Bill that would guarantee the residency of EU citizens in the UK.
Presidential candidate Trump holds a sign at a rally.
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The logic behind building a wall is centuries old. But can concrete solve the complex problems the U.S. is facing today?
Peter Dutton says he would like to see criteria tightened to deny citizenship to those who have not integrated into Australia.
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The most important benefit of citizenship for migrants is the sense of inclusion and acceptance into their adopted community.
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China’s hukou system is a relic of the Mao era – and it’s holding the nation’s rural population back.
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Imagine a world in which the people of California and London shared common citizenship but needed a visa to go to Florida or Cornwall.
Paul Keating put the idea of a new flag, shorn of any traces of the Union Jack, on the political agenda.
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By the end of 1992, Paul Keating had done more than anyone to place on the political agenda issues of national identity that had been either dead or dormant for years.
Tunde Jaji with his old teacher and the mayor of Bournemouth.
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Ten years ago as a BBC special correspondent Kurt Barling broke the story of a teenager who had been abused as a domestic servant. Now he reports on what happened next.
The attorney-general holds a largely political office, sitting in cabinet and often holding other portfolios.
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Regardless of where the truth lies, we now have an extraordinary position where Australia’s two law officers are in conflict.
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But it’s not clear what proof of permanent right to reside will mean after Brexit.
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Much of academic philosophy, even on the African continent, is openly and unashamedly in love with the idea of the West as destiny.
The nation’s political chasm – already wide – has grown even more since 2012.
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Elected officials and the media are in cahoots. Both have succumbed to a two-party system that treats voters not as independent thinkers, but as blind partisans.
Democracy can only work if students realise the importance of active citizenship, but citizenship education has lost its way under David Cameron’s government.
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UK schools introduced citizenship education in 2002, but early gains have been reversed. The state of democracy and the Brexit vote suggest the need for informed citizens has never been greater.
Making citizens.
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An extra £1.2 billion of public money is going to a volunteering scheme for teenagers.
Does Britain have a dress code?
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The debate surrounding Muslims and citizenship entrenches discrimination.
Activist in the making.
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A new study of young Belgians shows the power of a political education.