Citizenship Archives

Citizenship

Children for Sale

by John Washington,

When Guatemalan adoption became big business

Bright Stars

by Laila Lalami,

The unfulfilled promise of American citizenship

A Sport and a Passport

From an interview conducted by Swiss authorities with Fulden Funda Yilmaz, a woman who was born to Turkish parents in Switzerland. Yilmaz applied for citizenship earlier this year, passed the…

The Boy Without a Country

by Jessica Weisberg,

Tokyo’s painful exclusion of immigrants

Echt Deutsch

by Yascha Mounk,

How the refugee crisis is changing a nation’s identity

Save Our Public Universities

by Marilynne Robinson,

In defense of America’s best idea

Displaced in the D.R.

by Rachel Nolan,

A country strips 210,000 of citizenship

Le Misérable

Translated by Ryann Liebenthal,

From open letters by the actor Gérard Depardieu, addressed to French prime minister Jean-Marc Ayrault and to the Russian press. In January, Depardieu obtained Russian citizenship in order to evade…