To avoid another Brexit let’s stop treating citizenship as a birthright
The author argues that the Brexit vote and global political shifts are challenging the traditional concept of citizenship. The piece proposes that citizenship may evolve into a more fluid, subscription-based model rather than a fixed birthright.
Somewhere in the depths of the messy and multi-directional fallout of Brexit, an interesting counter-trend is crystallizing. Even as millions of voters around the world loudly embrace slogans like “Make America Great Again” or “Vote Leave, Take Control,” the notion of fixed national citizenship has probably never faced such a moment of reshaping. What started as a referendum on political membership for the United Kingdom may be the trigger for a radical redefinition of citizenship as a concept in the near future—more like a subscription membership than a birthright.
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