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THE MEANING OF CITIZENSHIP.

In a democracy, the source of all authority — the legitimate basis of all power — is the collective body of the people, the citizens of the polity. There is popular sovereignty of the citizens and thereby government by consent of the governed. A citizen is a full and equal member of a polity, such as a democratic nation-state (Mouffe 1995, 217). 

In some states or countries, citizenship, the condition of being a citizen, is based on the place of a person’s birth, which is known as “jus soli” citizenship. In other places, the status of citizen is based on the citizenship of one’s parents, which is known as “jus sanguinis” citizenship. Some countries use both bases for ascribing citizenship. Further, most democratic states have established legal procedures by which people without a birthright to citizenship can become naturalized citizens.  (more…)

THEY are the individuals, couples and families who have come from all corners of the world to start a new life.

The 1100 refugees who arrive through UN-sponsored programs in Queensland each year all share a common bond, having each escaped from a tyrannical and oppressive homeland before finding peace and a new life in a foreign country. Some of these refugees have arrived in the past few months, with memories of torture, hunger, rape and disease fresh in their minds.Others have spent decades in Brisbane, establishing careers and families as they forge strong bonds with their communities. One of the new arrivals is a family of Rohingya people – a Burmese ethnic minority. (more…)

October 29, 2009

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 Here’s a formula for making a killing in times of crisis. Go to the south-eastern tip of Bangladesh, on the border with Burma, and buy an old fishing boat. It’ll cost 100,000 taka, or about £900. Then budget 450 pounds, for rice and drinking water, and maybe another £450 for bribes. Then head off and trawl for clients among the most destitute communities in Bangladesh – a country so densely populated country and so poor that for Britain to be on similar economic terms it would have to have a population of 200 million with an average income around four per cent of what a Briton’s is today, (more…)

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2008 Year 12 End, we just ship a few small vessels carrying hundreds of people flooded, alongside the Andaman Islands of India. Most of the people who were on board the Rohingya people from western Burma , Muslims, many of which had been weakened. According to Indian officials told the crew, but the shipwrecked people, including to Thailand, by Thai authorities on a deserted island TwoDays after the arrest had been turned away in the ocean is only incur a few bags of rice and little water. According to the testimony against the Rohingya people told that India, doctors and government officials in the ocean is forced to stop the ship, it was also tortured in Burma from the sailors of the Navy [1] . (more…)

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WATERLOO REGION — Samjida Begum looks around the table at the women sitting beside her and she knows she’s in good company. That’s because the women are just like her.

They are refugee women who were forced to leave their homeland and live elsewhere, some in dingy refugee camps before coming to Canada.

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As one of Myanmar’s ethnic Muslim Rohingya, 45-year-old Manjurul Islam endured a lifetime of oppression before he finally fled the country for a squalid refugee camp in Bangladesh.

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Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Xenophobia is not nationalism and patriotism, opposition leader Daw Aung Suu Kyi has said.

“She said nationalism is good with good intentions for the welfare of one’s own nationality and with Metta (love) and Cetana (benevolence). But it should not hate and hurt other nationalities,” the National League for Democracy (NLD) party spokesman Nyan Win quoted her as saying.

The detained leader spoke to her advocate and party spokesman this morning at her home on University Avenue, Rangoon.

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