Citizenship to go
Citizenship to go
- May 18, 2012
- Kamal Sadiq, political science associate professor, is quoted in The New York Times May 17, 2012
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From The NYT:
The real problem with citizenship laws is not their manipulation by lawmakers or
entrepreneurs, much less by mythical "anchor babies." The problem is more fundamental:
the age-old, irrational linkage between citizenship and birthplace.... Kamal Sadiq,
a political scientist at the University of California, Irvine, showed how bureaucrats
in Malaysia, Indonesia and India have improperly denied birth certificates to children
because they were born outside of hospitals or because their mothers were unmarried
or were immigrants.... The problem is not bad science, poorly trained officials or
even ethnic hatred. The problem is the dubious reliance on birth for assigning citizenship.
For the full story, please visit http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/18/opinion/citizenship-to-go.html.
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