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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Citizenship rights"”.
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Towards a just community: an examination of the development of cultural citizenship rights in Canada from a communitarian perspective
The notion of citizenship, while a basic human right, has come under scrutiny. It was once assumed a liberal inspired regime of citizenship rights would reign as the primary ideological perspective in the Western world, however this has not been the case. Numerous competing paradigms have …
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The application of the concept of 'citizens plus' to status Indians in Canada
… considers the application of a differentiated citizenship to status Indians in Canada. The topic is studied both normatively and empirically. The thesis reviews how the concept of citizenship has evolved through the thought of modern liberal theorists, such as T.H. Marshall, Will Kymlicka and …
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An analysis of the impact of nationalism on the rights of dual citizens in Zambia: an equality approach
… (Amendment) Act, No. 2 of 2016 provides rights and places duties upon the status of citizenship. Equality and non- discrimination are recognized as national values used to interpret the Constitution and in the enactment of laws. Nevertheless, the Constitution seemingly discriminates …
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Diasporic identities, autochthonous rights: race, gender, and the cultural politics of Creole land rights in Nicaragua
… diaspora in their struggles for communal land rights. The historical part of the project examines successive waves of mobilization within the Creole community for access to land under colonial and post-colonial regimes, demonstrating that Creole land politics have played out by relatively …
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“Should I Sacrifice to Live Half-American?”: An Examination of the Double V Campaign
… for the recognition of their full American citizenship rights. The Double V Campaign helped many black Americans reconcile the paradoxes of being asked to fight for a country that denied African Americans their full citizenship rights. Despite no political or social changes occurring as a …
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Doorway to the Competitions of Life: African American Citizenship and Access to Higher Education
… Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and the Civil Rights Act (1964) relied heavily on the Reconstruction Amendments to launch a revised attack on segregation and racial discrimination producing only limited success. However, more recent court cases and legislative changes such as Regents of …
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Understanding the shift from permanent employment to contract work among retail workers who accepted voluntary retrenchment packages in 2017
… to typical benefits associated with industrial citizenship. The study adopted a qualitative research design with 10 semi-structured interviews. Using the worlds of work model and the concept industrial citizenship for analysis, this study finds that workplace restructuring strategies have led to …
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Stateless (bidoon) children in Kuwait and the right to education
… full array of generous benefits that come with citizenship rights. In Kuwait, people without a nationality are known as Bidoon, which literally means “without.” This research seeks to investigate the history of the Bidoon in Kuwait, particularly in relation to social policies and access to …
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Agency in the Barrio: Exploring the Intersection of Participation, Politics and Urban Development in Guatemala City
… individuals and groups to construct meaningful citizenship rights, especially to basic living conditions, by means of a diverse array of self-organization initiatives and a variety of engagement strategies with the state. Despite the many obstacles revealed in this research, numerous individuals …
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Gender equality and human development in Macedonia during transition (1991-2006)
… policies through the examination of the basic citizenship rights to which citizens are entitled and by the means of the evaluation of their capabilities to exercise these rights. Gender equality, as one of the main strongholds of the concept of human development is measured through the …
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Borderline Europeans: European Union Citizenship on the Polish -German Frontier
… practices of the European Union's transnational citizenship policies. By documenting the everyday negotiations, interactions, and reflections of life on the Polish-German border, this study chronicles both the successes and failures of European Union citizenship at the local level, and focuses …
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Borderline Europeans: European Union Citizenship on the Polish-German Frontier
… practices of the European Union's transnational citizenship policies. By documenting the everyday negotiations, interactions, and reflections of life on the Polish-German border, this study chronicles both the successes and failures of European Union citizenship at the local level, and focuses …
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A Eurafrican Future: France, Algeria, and the Treaty of Rome (1951-1975)
… colonial and European relations demonstrates how citizenship rights and multilateral diplomacy were influenced by economic as well as political pressures. It reveals<strong> </strong>that Europe’s current borders are strikingly less expansive than those envisioned by France and its partners in the …
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That We May Exert Our Influence More Powerfully: Race, Politics and Identity in Ohio's Southeast Borderland, 1802-1865
… over fugitive slaves, Black migration, and the rights of free African Americans created a hostile political climate for African Americans. Despite anti-Black legislation and the fragility of freedom along Ohio's southern border, African Americans continued moving into Southeast Ohio, forming …
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The Effects of the Government's Covid-19 Related Response on Migrant Women Living in Cape Town: Assessing the Coloniality of Citizenship in Post-Apartheid South African and the Potential for a New Citizenship Paradigm
… system continues to preserve unequal gendered citizenship rights based on colonial and apartheid hierarchies. Despite a rights based legal platform, the state reproduces racism, xenophobia and patriarchy, creating a multitude of vulnerabilities for black migrant women due to their triple …
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Beyond the Economic: The Freedoms, Capabilities, and Social Capital of Latin American Women Entrepreneurs in San Francisco
… stigmas associated with immigration status and citizenship rights. This study concludes that these barriers can prevent the enjoyment of other freedoms like political participation and that displacement of immigrants through gentrification also threatens economic success by devaluing established …
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Jose Arturo Castellanos: An Unlikely Hero of the Second World War from El Salvador
… effort to provide certificates of El Salvadoran citizenship throughout Europe to Jews under threat of persecution. These certificates saved the lives of countless European Jews because they conveyed El Salvadoran citizenship rights and thus prevented the deportation of Jews who held such …
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Religion and politics: the legal regulation of religious organisations in Uganda — 2016 - present
… organisations has come into tension with citizenship rights and freedoms. This is the case in Uganda in recent years, where the state government at the federal level has proposed the National Religion and Faith Organizations (RFO) Policy. This policy was first proposed in 2016 and the …
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Exporting the racial republic: African colonization, national citizenship, and the transformation of U.S. expansion, 1776-1864
… colonization offered the possibility of black citizenship rights, but only within racially homogenous nation-states, which some proponents of colonization imagined might lead to a “United States of Africa.” This dissertation examines how the notion of expanding democratic ideals through the …
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Globalizing teacher labor for the knowledge economy: The case of New York City's Caribbean teachers
… knowledge economy: the nexus between workers’ rights, citizenship rights, and human rights—and the importance of the nation in advancing these rights; the value of their insider/outsider perspectives on American public education; and the gendered construction of their transnational, …
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