Universal Citizenship

Assumption: Everyone who regularly resides and works in a state should be eligible for full membership, as should anyone who applies for citizenship.

Visitors, both wanted and unwanted: Every state establishes requirements for granting citizenship. Usually, the individual nations’ constitutions and statutes would provide these specifics.

Problem of stateless people or refugees:

• States’ borders are still being redrawn as a result of political unrest or warfare. People can be compelled to relocate to new states after losing their homes, security, and political identities.
• If no state is prepared to accept them as is and they are unable to go back home. Without a doubt, they are treated as illegal immigrants or forced to live in camps.
• To help them, the United Nations has designated a High Commissioner (diplomat) for Refugees.

Difficulties with Refugee Policy:

• For many states, it presents a challenging political and humanitarian issue.
• It’s possible that many nations would prefer not to take in an excessive amount of refugees or jeopardize national security.
• India is renowned for offering protection to oppressed populations. Just as it did in 1959 with the Dalai Lama and his adherents. Comparatively speaking, very few of them end up becoming citizens.
• These issues cast doubt on democratic citizenship’s promise that everyone in the modern world would have access to citizens’ rights and identities.

Global Citizenship:

• Globalization and Tele-Communication: Emerging channels of communication, like the internet, television, and mobile phones, have significantly altered our perception of the globe.
• Acquired empathy and common concerns: With the advent of new communication channels, we can now stay up to date on global trends instantly.

Advocates of global citizenship

(a)Strive to become a global citizen:

Even though there isn’t yet a global society or universal community, people already feel connected to one another across national borders.

(b)State failure in a particular area:

It may make it easier to affect issues that cross national boundaries and require cooperative action by the people and governments of many states. The concept of national citizenship assumes that our state can provide us with the protection and rights, but states today are faced with many problems that they cannot tackle alone.

(c)Supporting states:

Socioeconomic disparities and other issues that may arise inside a society could jeopardize equal citizenship within that nation; however, these issues could be resolved by the governments and other members of that particular society.

A nation is not the same as a country. A nation is defined by its borders, governing bodies, and population. A nation is characterized by its culture and history; it gives its citizens an identity that allows them to be recognized as distinct from citizens of other nations. Indian, Chinese, Portuguese, and American, for instance. Therefore, the State grants these people rights so they can enjoy themselves; nevertheless, the rights granted by various states vary.

We will study every important aspect of this citizen and country in this article.