TY - CHAP
T1 - Adverse aspects of citizenship education in the global era
T2 - The Israeli case
AU - Yonah, Yossi
PY - 2010/11
Y1 - 2010/11
N2 - To say citizenship is to say inclusion. Bestowing citizenship status on individuals is nothing but including them within a given polity. The obvious mechanism of inclusion may be through immigration policies, which confer on outsiders the right to enter the body politic and go through its naturalization processes to legally become full and equal members. But inclusion may take other forms, less visible but definitely not less important. One may be indigenous and yet barred from full inclusion within the body politic, for full inclusion means the allocation of rights-civic, political, economic, and cultural. And as we know, it is often the case that indigenous groups are systematically discriminated against in the allocation of these rights in settler societies like the US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Israel, and many South American societies. Denying individuals’ citizenship status is to deny them state protection from natural and social misfortunes and the opportunities the state provides to lead prosperous and meaningful lives.
AB - To say citizenship is to say inclusion. Bestowing citizenship status on individuals is nothing but including them within a given polity. The obvious mechanism of inclusion may be through immigration policies, which confer on outsiders the right to enter the body politic and go through its naturalization processes to legally become full and equal members. But inclusion may take other forms, less visible but definitely not less important. One may be indigenous and yet barred from full inclusion within the body politic, for full inclusion means the allocation of rights-civic, political, economic, and cultural. And as we know, it is often the case that indigenous groups are systematically discriminated against in the allocation of these rights in settler societies like the US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Israel, and many South American societies. Denying individuals’ citizenship status is to deny them state protection from natural and social misfortunes and the opportunities the state provides to lead prosperous and meaningful lives.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85125022481&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9780203843079-19
DO - 10.4324/9780203843079-19
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85125022481
SN - 9780415991902
SN - 9780415744256
T3 - Routledge Research in Education
SP - 199
EP - 216
BT - Citizenship, Education, and Social Conflict
A2 - Alexander, Hanan A.
A2 - Pinson, Halleli
A2 - Yonah, Yossi
PB - Taylor and Francis
ER -