Mirta Ojio’s book Hunting Season, Immigration and Murder in an All-American Town is based on a true story of an immigrant’s murder that turned a small American town on Long Island village of Patchogue into a war zone for immigration rights. In this critical reflection paper, I will discuss and analyze three key issues or themes that were represented in the Hunting Season and elaborate how these concepts connect with those of Governing Immigration through Crime by Dowling and Inda. The first concept is that of the Membership Theory, a theory which “limits individual rights and privileges to the members of a social contract between the government and the people” (Dowling & Inda,2013). The Membership theory often marks out boundaries of who is an accepted member of society and who isn’t, which was demonstrated in Hunting Season when Marcelo Lucero traveled from Ecuador to Long Island.…
Scot Hafer Mrs. Rue 10-8-15 Good citizen essay Understanding and Adapting People can't always get what they wants. No one can ever always get what they one in this world. Just like a society won't be able to get perfect expectations out of the people in it. A good citizen is a person who fights for racial equality and has respect for a persons culture or beliefs by giving people a place in society or by giving other races a chance in a society because if one person in a society didn't obey the law or let other races be equal to each other; then they would set bad examples to other citizens, and some people in that society might follow which would give the lawmakers and people who…
If a community is to come together it takes the qualities mentioned above by Cronon to solidify it as one. Beginning first with the quality of listening and hearing. As we progress through society we are seeing communities more and more diverse throughout the world, and particularly prevalent in American cities. With this diversity comes many different cultures and customs that we are all not familiar with. If these communities full of diversity are to coexist it is essential for people to listen and hear.…
It also takes commitment and “a sense of dedication to help one’s fellow human beings achieve a better life” (Nadar, 142). While civics is for every citizen, most do not perform their duties or exercise their…
Aristotle described a citizen as someone who can rule and be ruled, and is able to play both parts well. (Lienesch,…
Paper #2 – Critical Evaluation of Dalton’s Citizenship Measures Generations of the American people faithfully participate in government policy because it is an honor and privilege to engage in the fundamentals of our country’s political democracy. In The Good Citizen, Russel J. Dalton explores good citizenship and how it affects the country. Also, Dalton focuses on the millennials, and challenges those that do not care about the country. Dalton further analyzes how the norms have changed over the past decades. Dalton’s ideas on American citizenship are interesting and somewhat engaging, which I find myself mostly agreeing with.…
Book Review Belonging: The Paradox of Citizenship by Adrienne Clarkson In 2014, television personality, journalist, best selling author, public servant and Canada’s first visible minority Governor General (Koch, 2010), Adrianne Clarkson delivered the CBC Massey Lectures (Nagy, 2014) in which she shared her thoughts through a collection of essays in which she explored citizenship in Canada and what it means to be a citizen of this country by reflecting on her own journey of immigrating as a child to Canada from Hong Kong. The contents of these lectures can be found in her book, Belonging: The Paradox of Citizenship.…
Citizenship is a status given by a government to some or all of its people. Rome gave citizenship to most of its people, whereas Athens gave citizenship very few of its people. The Roman government was more lenient to its population 45,000,000 people. The Roman government had a system set up for those who were foreigners and wanted to become citizens. The Romans may have been lenient, but they had limits for citizens too.…
Being a good citizen is like being a good father/mother. Good parents have to take care of their child like feeding and making sure they're safe and healthy good education and responsibility and a lot more. Athens and Rome was the first countries to have this idea. About 590 BCE. They also had citizenship well they had the idea of it so they did they actually did it in many way.…
In chapter 9 of The Good Citizen, Russell Dalton (2009) compares the effects of the shift in citizenship norms in the United States and in the other advanced industrial democracies based on three political aspects: participation, tolerance and democratic values. Two couple of terms of duty based citizenship and engaged citizen are consistently used in this chapter to illustrate the changes in political cultures of not only the America but also other advanced democratic countries. Duty based citizenship poses images of the individuals who conservatively believe that heavy-duty activities such as voting, paying tax or obeying the law would be measurement of a healthy democracy (Dalton, 2009). Meanwhile, engaged citizenship is grouping people who get involved in politics in more assertive approaches which tend to pose more challenges to their…
A citizen is one who is a member of a state or country. The title, Citizen: An American Lyric” really defines the book because it talks about life from the viewpoint of several citizens and their lyrics are their life story. Rankine uses this particular title because she explains situations that citizens go through whether or not they’re upper, middle…
With the 2016 presidential election approaching many prominent wedge issues have come to the forefront of popular opinion including the issue of immigration, specifically birthright citizenship. Despite extensive legal precedence and the fundamental role of immigration in American society (and the birthright citizen status of several of the candidates themselves) many political figures have recently denounced birthright citizenship, some even pledging to do away with the practice altogether if elected. The notion of ending the practice of granting citizenship to those born of illegal parents within the United States is not only contrary to the policies established in the 14th Amendment, but would also have extensive socioeconomic consequences, most notably the creation of a quasi-legal underclass of U.S. residents who’s citizenship status falls within an ambiguous legal gray area. The most popular argument among critics of birthright citizenship is that citizenship is not guaranteed by the 14th Amendment or by the United States…
Should Citizenship Be a Birthright? The 14th amendment states all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the states in which they reside. From the time someone is born in the hospital in the U.S., they are legally considered an U.S. citizen. The person is given a birth certificate and a social security number linking their identity to the government proving that he or she is a natural born citizen. In other cases, people migrate to the U.S. for better opportunity and a more stable living environment.…
Start to divide what is the signs of citizenship also the dis-citizenship. Base on the article, if we need to understand the citizenship of integration, then must know the superdiversity create what level of polycentricity in our society. Vertovec…
Since the power to speak or act as one wishes without constraint is a large component of freedom, an individuals’ ability to share their ideas gives them the opportunity to constitute new laws, and make changes to the community as a whole. With this thinking, we can determine that the practice of citizenship, by default, gives the practice of choice. Aristotle states that, “…we feel anger and fear without choice, but the virtues are modes of choice or involve choice” (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 957). Developing citizenship and striving to gain knowledge in order to participate in political affairs reduces the feelings of helplessness and irritation that often accompany allowing others to be in charge of affairs that may have an effect on oneself. Rather than relying too heavily on policymakers to have ones’ best interests in mind, it is the responsibility of the citizens to have an understanding in matters that may create an impact.…