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Author : United States. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book A Guide to Naturalization written by United States. Immigration and Naturalization Service and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vera Schatten Coelho
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848139152
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Mobilizing for Democracy written by Vera Schatten Coelho and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mobilizing for Democracy is an in-depth study into how ordinary citizens and their organizations mobilize to deepen democracy. Featuring a collection of new empirical case studies from Angola, Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, this important new book illustrates how forms of political mobilization, such as protests, social participation, activism, litigation and lobbying, engage with the formal institutions of representative democracy in ways that are core to the development of democratic politics. No other volume has brought together examples from such a broad Southern spectrum and covering such a diversity of actors: rural and urban dwellers, transnational activists, religious groups, politicians and social leaders. The cases illuminate the crucial contribution that citizen mobilization makes to democratization and the building of state institutions, and reflect the uneasy relationship between citizens and the institutions that are designed to foster their political participation.
Author : Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108187978
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Claiming the State written by Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Citizens around the world look to the state for social welfare provision, but often struggle to access essential services in health, education, and social security. This book investigates the everyday practices through which citizens of the world's largest democracy make claims on the state, asking whether, how, and why they engage public officials in the pursuit of social welfare. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in rural India, Kruks-Wisner demonstrates that claim-making is possible in settings (poor and remote) and among people (the lower classes and castes) where much democratic theory would be unlikely to predict it. Examining the conditions that foster and inhibit citizen action, she finds that greater social and spatial exposure - made possible when individuals traverse boundaries of caste, neighborhood, or village - builds citizens' political knowledge, expectations, and linkages to the state, and is associated with higher levels and broader repertoires of claim-making.
Author : Daniele Archibugi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351713175
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book Claiming Citizenship Rights in Europe written by Daniele Archibugi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the European integration project is facing new challenges, abandonments and criticism, it is often forgotten that there are powerful legal instruments that allow citizens to protect and extend their rights. These instruments and the actions taken to activate them are often overlooked and deliberately ignored in the mainstream debates. This book presents a selection of cases in which legal institutions, social movements, avant-gardes and minorities have tried, and often succeeded, to enhance the current state of human rights through traditional as well as innovative actions. The chapters of this book investigate some of the cases in which the gap between the conventionally recognized rights and those advocated is becoming wider and where traditionally disadvantaged groups raise new problems or new issues are emerging concerning individual freedom, transparency and accountability, which are not yet properly addressed in the current political and legal landscape. Can political institutions and courts without coercive power of last resort actually foster more progressive rights? This book suggests that the expansion of human rights might be a viable strategy to generate a proper European citizenship. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of European Studies, Politics and International Relations, Law and Society, Sociology and Migration Studies and more broadly to NGOs and policy advisers.
Author : Andrea Cornwall
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781842775530
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (755 download)
Download or read book Spaces for Change? written by Andrea Cornwall and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the developments which have brought about a new, global wave of inclusiveness and democracy. From Brazil to Bangladesh, a new form of participatory politics is springing up. Featuring contributions detailing how such movements have worked in Latin America, Europe and Africa, the book analyzes the impact they have had on the democratic process. By opening up the political sphere in this way, the authors contend, these grassroots movements truly have created "spaces for change."
Author : William Flores
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807046357
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (463 download)
Download or read book Latino Cultural Citizenship written by William Flores and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1998-08-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through years of ethnographic work in Latino centers in San Antonio, Los Angeles, New York, San Jose, and Watsonville, California, eight prominent Latino scholars from disciplines such as anthropology, political science, and literary and legal studies explore the dynamics of Latino community-building and "cultural citizenship"-the use of cultural expression to claim political rights in the larger culture while maintaining a vibrant local identity. Chapters detail acts of cultural affirmation in Christmas festival celebrations in Texas, cannery strikes in California, educational programs in New York, and much more. A pathbreaking work of Latino scholarship, this book will help redefine the conversation about the future of community and the nature of citizenship in the United States The scholars in the interdisciplinary Inter-University Project (IUP) who wrote this book include Renato Rosaldo (Stanford University), Richard R. Flores (University of Wisconsin), Ana L. Juarbe (Hunter College), Blanca G. Silvestrini (University of Puerto Rico), Raymond Rocco (University of California, Los Angeles), the late Rosa Torruellas (Hunter College), and the volume's editors, William V. Flores (California State University, Northridge) and Rina Benmayor (California State University, Monterey Bay).
Author : Robert Jensen
Publisher : City Lights Books
ISBN 13 : 9780872864320
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (643 download)
Download or read book Citizens of the Empire written by Robert Jensen and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As we approach the elections of 2004, U.S. progressives are faced with the challenge of how to confront our unresponsive and apparently untouchable power structures. With millions of antiwar demonstrators glibly dismissed as a "focus group," and with the collapse of political and intellectual dialogue into slogans and soundbites used to stifle protest-"Support the Troops," "We Are the Greatest Nation on Earth," etc.-many people feel cynical and hopeless. Citizens of the Empire probes into the sense of disempowerment that has resulted from the Left's inability to halt the violent and repressive course of post-9/11 U.S. policy. In this passionate and personal exploration of what it means to be a citizen of the world's most powerful, affluent and militarized nation in an era of imperial expansion, Jensen offers a potent antidote to despair over the future of democracy. In a plainspoken analysis of the dominant political rhetoric-which is intentionally crafted to depress political discourse and activism-Jensen reveals the contradictions and falsehoods of prevailing myths, using common-sense analogies that provide the reader with a clear-thinking rebuttal and a way to move forward with progressive political work and discussions. With an ethical framework that integrates political, intellectual and emotional responses to the disheartening events of the past two years, Jensen examines the ways in which society has been led to this point and offers renewed hope for constructive engagement. Robert Jensen is a professor of media law, ethics and politics at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of Writing Dissent: Taking Radical Ideas from the Margins to the Mainstream, among other books. He also writes for popular media, and his opinion and analytical pieces on foreign policy, politics and race have appeared in papers and magazines throughout the United States.
Author : Tammy Gagne
Publisher : Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1612285090
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Your Guide to Becoming a US Citizen written by Tammy Gagne and published by Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year hundreds of thousands of immigrants become naturalized citizens of the United States. Perhaps you and your parents are preparing to be among them. Applying for citizenship is a big decision, one that will require a fair amount of planning and preparation. This book will guide you through the steps you will need to take to make this dream a reality. Even those who were US citizens at birth can learn about the process that immigrants go through to become naturalized citizens. Whether you were born on United States soil or you are anxiously awaiting the day you become a citizen, learning about the naturalization process can help everyone appreciate the special privilege of US citizenship.
Author : John Gaventa
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781848133860
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (338 download)
Download or read book Citizen Action and National Policy Reform written by John Gaventa and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2010-04-08 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does citizen activism win changes in national policy? Which factors help to make myriad efforts by diverse actors add up to reform? What is needed to overcome setbacks, and to consolidate the smaller victories? These questions need answers. Aid agencies have invested heavily in supporting civil society organizations as change agents in fledgling and established democracies alike. Evidence gathered by donors, NGOs and academics demonstrates how advocacy and campaigning can reconfigure power relations and transform governance structures at the local and global levels. In the rush to go global or stay local, however, the national policy sphere was recently neglected. Today, there is growing recognition of the key role of champions of change inside national governments, and the potential of their engagement with citizen activists outside. These advances demand a better understanding of how national and local actors can combine approaches to simultaneously work the levers of change, and how their successes relate to actors and institutions at the international level. This book brings together eight studies of successful cases of citizen activism for national policy changes in South Africa, Morocco, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Turkey, India and the Philippines. They detail the dynamics and strategies that have led to the introduction, change or effective implementation of policies responding to a range of rights deficits. Drawing on influential social science theory about how political and social change occurs, the book brings new empirical insights to bear on it, both challenging and enriching current understandings.
Author : Karen Zivi
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199826412
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Making Rights Claims written by Karen Zivi and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the act of rights claiming a form of political contestation that advances democracy? Rather than simply taking a side for or against rights claiming, Making Rights Claims argues that understanding and assessing the relationship between rights and democracy requires a new approach to the study of rights. Zivi combines insights from speech act theory with recent developments in democratic and feminist thought to develop a theory of the performativity of rights claiming.
Author : Anita Biase
Publisher : Atlantic Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1601381352
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Your U.S. Citizenship Guide written by Anita Biase and published by Atlantic Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your total resource for becoming a United States citizen. You'll learn the eligibility rules, and find easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for the N-400 application form. This book will help you prepare for the interview and the citizenship test. You will read a study guide on the principles of the U.S. Constitution and U.S. history. You will improve your English and become knowledgeable about the benefits and responsibilities of being a citizen.
Author : Cheri Sicard
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0764554638
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (645 download)
Download or read book U.S. Citizenship For Dummies written by Cheri Sicard and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decision to become a United States citizen is one of the most important choices you can ever make. Before you can become a U.S. citizen, however, you first must be a lawful permanent resident ofthe U.S. For this reason, before you begin the process, you need to know what you want to achieve - legal immigration or naturalization - and if you can expect to qualify for it. U.S. Citizenship For Dummies will help you get through this often confusing process, from determining how best to qualifyto live permanently in the United States to gaining a green card and then citizenship. This reference guide is for anyone who Is interested in living permanently in the U.S. Is a friend or relative of someone who wishes to live permanently in the U.S. Wants to become a naturalized citizen Has no legal background or any familiarity with U.S. immigration This book helps you discover the important requirements you needto meet and offers tips and insights into dealing with the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (BCIS). You also get to know other government agencies that you'll work with while attempting to immigrate to the U.S. or become a citizen. U.S. Citizenship For Dummies covers the following topics and more: Clear information on the immigration process Up-to-date information on various application forms The rights of legal aliens Recent changes in immigration laws Review of English and Civics tests Pointers on the interview process Survey of U.S. history, government, and culture Coverage on visas and green cards Troubleshooting immigration problems Becoming a U.S. citizen carries important duties and responsibilities as well as rights, rewards, and privileges. Before you make the decision to pursue U.S. citizenship, you need to beaware of what you stand to lose and what you stand to gain; you also need to be sure you're ready to fulfill all the obligations of a good citizen. U.S. Citizenship For Dummies will help you understand all that it means to become a citizen ofthe United States of America.
Author : Ilona Bray
Publisher : Nolo
ISBN 13 : 1413331173
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Becoming a U.S. Citizen written by Ilona Bray and published by Nolo. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All in one resource for successfully applying for U.S. citizenship. Written by an experienced attorney, this guide offers everything green card holders (lawful permanent residents) need to know in order to apply for and receive naturalized U.S. citizenship. Includes information on whether would-be applicants meet the strict eligibility criteria (minimum U.S. residence, good moral character, and more), how to prepare and submit Form N-400 and other paperwork, and how to pass the exams and interview. Special focus on dealing with difficulties and delays.
Author : Martha S. Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107150345
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Birthright Citizens written by Martha S. Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the origins of the Fourteenth Amendment's birthright citizenship provision, as a story of black Americans' pre-Civil War claims to belonging.
Author : The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510750649
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Preparing for the United States Naturalization Test written by The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reference manual for all immigrants looking to become citizens This pocket study guide will help you prepare for the naturalization test. If you were not born in the United States, naturalization is the way that you can voluntarily become a US citizen. To become a naturalized U.S. citizen, you must pass the naturalization test. This pocket study guide provides you with the civics test questions and answers, and the reading and writing vocabulary to help you study. Additionally, this guide contains over fifty civics lessons for immigrants looking for additional sources of information from which to study. Some topics include: · Principles of American democracy · Systems of government · Rights and representation · Colonial history · Recent American history · American symbols · Important holidays · And dozens more topics!
Author : Barbara Brooks Kimmel
Publisher : Next Decade, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Citizenship Made Simple written by Barbara Brooks Kimmel and published by Next Decade, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of people apply for citizenship in the United States every year, and this fully revised reference provides valuable information for those wishing to apply-including foreign nationals who currently live and work in the US -- those who work with US Immigration and Naturalization Services, individuals who teach courses on US citizenship, English as a second language instructors, legal support staff, and others. Descriptions of the process, requirements, application procedure, and test samples are detailed. This edition provides the latest information on citizenship based on military service and also includes sample forms and a directory of Immigration and Naturalization Service offices and US passport agencies.
Author : Ilona M. Bray
Publisher : NOLO
ISBN 13 : 0873377990
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (733 download)
Download or read book Becoming a U.S. Citizen written by Ilona M. Bray and published by NOLO. This book was released on 2003 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the process of becoming a United States citizen, covering such topics as preparing application forms and the interview with an INS official, and includes a variety of questions and answers for the citizenship exam.
