Civil liberties protect core freedoms, social welfare entitlements set a floor and provide a measure of security, and political rights protect people's interest in shaping the institutions that govern them. Moreover, the rights that come with citizenship each have an important function. Citizenship is a way of dividing responsibility.
Here's the puzzle: What is citizenship for? Clearly, citizenship serves the important function of assigning persons whose rights require protection to states who are responsible for protecting them (Owen, 2020). 120–121), Joseph Carens ( 2013), and Kieran Oberman ( 2017) agree that immigrants ought not to be permanently denied citizenship. Moreover, philosophers as diverse as Michael Walzer ( 1983), Christopher Heath Wellman (Wellman and Cole, 2011), David Miller ( 2016, pp. This claim is prevalent in public discourse, with its emphasis on a ‘pathway to citizenship’ for the undocumented, and in legal practice, which in many states respects (imperfectly) the claims of settled immigrants to membership. The familiar claim is that immigrants, after settling for a substantial period of time in their adopted state, acquire a claim to naturalize and become full citizens of that state.
I begin with a familiar claim, and a puzzle.
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