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This paper explores different stories of sexual citizenship found in gay and lesbian rights struggles. It uses two recent cultural productions , Kissing Jessica Stein and Queer as Folk, to analyze the stories of sexual citizenship found in two Supreme Court decisions, M. v. H., and Little Sisters. The paper deploys these contrasting stories of sexual citizenship, of sameness and difference, ass...

Abstract should be 50to 150-words.] Citizenship, like rurality, is a highly contested term. Yet emerging research has suggested that distinctive forms of citizenship are becoming associated with the global countryside. This chapter examines the significance of citizenship to rural geography and how understandings of rurality contribute to our knowledge of citizenship. It explores how rural citi...

This paper is concerned with the interlinked issues of citizenship and the structured dependency of older people within Social Gerontology. It argues that implicit in much British Social Gerontology is a strategy of advancing the wellbeing of elderly people through the extension of citizenship rights. Absence of these rights leads to poverty, exclusion and ageism being commonplace experiences o...

Civic literacy is an area of the field of literacy’s that libraries should develop. In Portugal, in the Seixal Municipal Library, we have also focused, for several years, on the development of textual literacy and other specific literacy’s (as is the case of digital, media, visual and historic literacy’s). In 2007, we started a program of literacy for citizenship, “Rights for Right?” (“Direitos...

In the 1990s, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Brazil passed dual citizenship laws granting their expatriates the right to naturalize in the receiving country without losing their nationality of origin. I estimate the effects of these new laws on naturalization rates and labor market outcomes in the United States. Based on data from the 1990 and 2000 U.S. censuses, I f...

abstract the penal legal procedure is a certain mechanism to find out the crime with respect to the behavior of the accused and the guilty. this mechanism must ensure the principles which guarantee justice and fairness, and provide the individual rights and freedoms that are the extreme goal of every just fair legal procedure. so in the proper execution of islamic commands, the necessity of obs...

This article analyses the relationship between gender, sexuality and citizenship embedded in models of citizenship in the Global South, specifically in South Asia, and the meanings associated with having - or not having - citizenship. It does this through an examination of women's access to citizenship in Nepal in the context of the construction of the emergent nation state in the 'new' Nepal '...

objective: citizenship identity as it is understood from the component words is a kind of distinction and recognition of intimates from outsiders which has a historical background. meaning of citizenship holds the concepts such as rights, responsibilities and duties, as well as a sense of belonging that in accordance with others and executive agencies will be meaningful and indicates a kind of ...