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  2. Nationality - Wikipedia

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    Nationality is the legal status of belonging to a particular nation, defined as a group of people organized in one country, under one legal jurisdiction, ...

  3. Wikipedia:Citizenship and nationality - Wikipedia

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    Citizenship is a legal status in a political institution such as a city or a state.The relationship between a citizen and the institution that confers this status is formal, and in contemporary liberal-democratic models includes both a set of rights that the citizen possesses by virtue of this relationship, and a set of obligations or duties that they owe to that institution and their fellow ...

  4. United States nationality law - Wikipedia

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    United States, 343 U.S. 717 (1952) that dual nationality is a long-recognized status in the law and that "a person may have and exercise rights of nationality in two countries and be subject to the responsibilities of both. The mere fact he asserts the rights of one nationality does not, without more, mean that he renounces the other". [150]

  5. Naturalization - Wikipedia

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    Naturalization (or naturalisation) is the legal act or process by which a non-national of a country acquires the nationality of that country after birth. [1] The definition of naturalization by the International Organization for Migration of the United Nations excludes citizenship that is automatically acquired (e.g. at birth) or is acquired by declaration.

  6. Nationality law - Wikipedia

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    Nationality law is the law of a sovereign state, and of each of its jurisdictions, that defines the legal manner in which a national identity is acquired and how it may be lost.

  7. Citizenship of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 made a distinction between "citizenship" and "nationality" of the United States: all United States citizens are also United States nationals, but not all U.S. nationals are also U.S. citizens. [79] Hence, it is possible for a person to be a national of the United States but not a U.S. citizen.

  8. Citizenship - Wikipedia

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    Citizenship is a membership and allegiance to a sovereign state. [1] [a]Though citizenship is often conflated with nationality in today's English-speaking world, [3] [4] [5] international law does not usually use the term citizenship to refer to nationality; [6] [7] these two notions are conceptually different dimensions of collective membership.

  9. National identity - Wikipedia

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    Essentialists view national identity as fixed, based on ancestry, a common language history, ethnicity, and world views (Connor 1994; [13] Huntington 1996 [14]). Constructivists believed in the importance of politics and the use of power by dominant groups to gain and maintain privileged status in society (Brubaker, 2009; [ 15 ] Spillman, 1997 ...