The Road to U.S.A. Citizenship
Author | : United States. Immigration and Naturalization Service |
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Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Citizenship |
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Author | : United States. Immigration and Naturalization Service |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Citizenship |
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Author | : United States. Immigration and Naturalization Service |
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Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Citizenship |
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Author | : Sofya Aptekar |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2015-03-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0813575443 |
Between 2000 and 2011, eight million immigrants became American citizens. In naturalization ceremonies large and small these new Americans pledged an oath of allegiance to the United States, gaining the right to vote, serve on juries, and hold political office; access to certain jobs; and the legal rights of full citizens. In The Road to Citizenship, Sofya Aptekar analyzes what the process of becoming a citizen means for these newly minted Americans and what it means for the United States as a whole. Examining the evolution of the discursive role of immigrants in American society from potential traitors to morally superior “supercitizens,” Aptekar’s in-depth research uncovers considerable contradictions with the way naturalization works today. Census data reveal that citizenship is distributed in ways that increasingly exacerbate existing class and racial inequalities, at the same time that immigrants’ own understandings of naturalization defy accepted stories we tell about assimilation, citizenship, and becoming American. Aptekar contends that debates about immigration must be broadened beyond the current focus on borders and documentation to include larger questions about the definition of citizenship. Aptekar’s work brings into sharp relief key questions about the overall system: does the current naturalization process accurately reflect our priorities as a nation and reflect the values we wish to instill in new residents and citizens? Should barriers to full membership in the American polity be lowered? What are the implications of keeping the process the same or changing it? Using archival research, interviews, analysis of census and survey data, and participant observation of citizenship ceremonies, The Road to Citizenship demonstrates the ways in which naturalization itself reflects the larger operations of social cohesion and democracy in America.
Author | : Edwina Austin Avery |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 78 |
Release | : 1952 |
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Author | : Alexandra Pelosi |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2011-06-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1101546158 |
The official companion book to the brand new HBO(r) documentary In the HBO(r) documentary tentatively titled Citizen USA, acclaimed filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi sets out on a road trip across America to attend naturalization ceremonies in all fifty states to meet brand-new citizens and find out why they chose America as their home. What she discovers is that America welcomes them all-the disabled, the cancer patients, homosexuals, Obama- haters, Christian missionaries, Muslim imams, Jewish rabbis, Buddhist monks, scientists with Ph.D.s (trying to find the cure for all the diseases that are plaguing us), tech giants in Silicon Valley, movie directors, race car drivers, and even a wrestler with his own action figure! Whether these new Americans arrived here through online dating, adoption, political asylum, student and work visas, or by swimming the Rio Grande River (and remained long enough to be granted amnesty) they all came here to live the "American Dream." And even though they are no longer visitors, our newest citizens still look at America with an outsider's perspective; they hold up a mirror to show us how we look as a nation-and how much we take for granted. At a time when unemployment is at an all-time high, America's manufacturing base is eroding, the federal deficit is exploding, and the poverty rate is at seventeen percent, immigrants from every other country on earth still flock here because no matter how bad it gets here, it's still a heck of a lot better than most other places on earth.
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Total Pages | : 78 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Citizenship |
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Author | : Edwina Austin Avery |
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Total Pages | : 78 |
Release | : 1950 |
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Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Americanization |
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Author | : Sara Howell |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2014-07-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1477767355 |
Many Americans are citizens because they were born here. But not everyone who lives here is a citizen. Ease into the process of applying for citizenship with help from this informative volume. Accompanying photos and captions familiarize readers with the citizenship test, the character check, and many other facets of the path to citizenship.
Author | : Amie Jane Leavitt |
Publisher | : Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2013-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1612285082 |
Citizens of the United States are not just people who live in the country. They are people who meet certain criteria. Citizens have specific rights, responsibilities, and duties that are unique to them. What are they? Explore the pages of this book and find out all about what it means to be a citizen of the United States. You'll also hear from people who came here from other countries as immigrants and went through the process to become naturalized citizens. They'll explain their stories and share their feelings about what it means to be a US citizen. Come on inside and let's get started on the road to understanding everything about US citizenship.