#naturalization

[kookiekult]

Currently terrified cuz trump said he's gonna denaturalize citizens.

My mom is a naturalized citizen.

Im rlly fucking scared cuz what like is she gonna get deported???

Can someone help me understand what this means exactly ☹️ ☹️

[newyorkthegoldenage]

A class in citizenship and English for Italians, given free of charge at the Hudson Park Library on Seventh Avenue near Bleecker Street, January 1943.

Photo: Fred Stein via Library of Congress/History in Photos

[everydeviceneedstoknow]

[paxvictoriana]

National Status of the Former (and Ongoing) British Empire

I've been doing research on the nationalities of all the former territories occupied, colonized, settled, controlled, or otherwise claimed by the British Empire. Short story: it's a mess.

But it also occurred to me in doing that that I couldn't find a good list of former colonies and territories that noted their status today (in Jan. 2024). So... here we are! I bet there are errors and I bet there are omissions, because – again – it's a MESS to get a clear picture of. And according to many legal historians and cultural studies scholars, that was and is on purpose.

Snapshots of those lists below -- but the full, and better-formatted version on my wordpress [because Tumblr didn't support the table I tried to make].

[* Denotes countries now in the Commonwealth of Nations.]

Again, I am sure there are issues here, as there have been contestations, debates, and challenges to the statuses of people born on land around the world that was once touched by British imperial boots.

For more on the CHAOS of those struggles, including the fundamental problem with establishing what “British nationality” even means, I highly recommend:

Ann Dummett and Andrew Nicol, Subjects, Citizens, Aliens and Others: Nationality and Immigration Law (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1990).

[fantasticcute]

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[ur-daily-inspiration]

Eyes of the forest. Aspen trees

[maviyenot]

[marissasketch]

Had to paint Moo Deng!! I love her so much

[lanndscape]

[catchymemes]

"Genesis", Oil on canvas by Matthew Cornell

[gulistan-blog]

㋡🥀

colors of the sky.

[spicymochi]

he is sitting and pondering

[climbingthefloors]

obsessed with this baby hippo from thailand's khao khew zoo.. she has been so utterly betrayed by the world

[landsccape]