Reforming Dual Citizenship in the United States: Integrating Immigrants into the American National Community - by Stanley A. Renshon - The New Coalition for Economic and Social Change

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Reforming Dual Citizenship in the United States: Integrating Immigrants into the American National Community

Written By: Stanley A. Renshon
Published In: Center Paper 25
Publication Date: September 1, 2005
Publisher: Center for Immigration Studies

At it most basic level, dual citizenship involves the simultaneous holding of more than one citizenship or nationality. Citizenship is a legal term and refers to the rights and responsibilities that become attached to people by virtue of their having been born as, or having become, naturalized American citizen, but your “home country” ignores that fact, which many do.