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What constitutes Jordanian citizenship has shifted dramatically since Jordan’s 1988 disengagement from the West Bank. Prior to 1988 all Palestinian refugees entering Jordan, with the exception of 1967 refugees from Gaza, were granted full Jordanian citizenship. This designation entitled them to the rights and responsibilities enjoyed by all Jordanians. However, this practice has since changed a...

Citizenship, human rights and diversity are subjects of urgent debates in societies seeking to consolidate democratic advances. Human citizenship historical, therefore, contextual. Consequently, the dissemination based on recognition political, social, civil cultural is interdependent multiple social configurations. It was aforementioned perspectives that guided implementation  the “Refere...

Citizenship reflects relationship between individual and social in form rights, obligations and responsible and prefer framework for individuals, groups and institutions' interactions. Nowadays extensive volume of speeches and writings an appropriated discussion of quantity and quality(rights and obligations) propounds this question that citizenship's realization and development in its affectiv...

One of the main points is that there is no universal story about citizenship. In modern democracies, gender systems are dynamic concepts embedded in national histories, institutions and cultures. One of the objectives of the network “Gender and Citizenship: Social Exclusion and Social Exclusion in European Welfare States” (see appendix) has been to develop a gender perspective on the framework ...

Current policy and practice directed towards people with learning disabilities originates in the deinstitutionalisation processes, civil rights concerns and integrationist philosophies of the 1970s and 1980s. However, historians know little about the specific contexts within which these were mobilised. Although it is rarely acknowledged in the secondary literature, MIND was prominent in campaig...