Tom Lansford

Citizenship and Immigration Tom Lansford

Citizenship in a democracy is the formal recognition that a person is a member of the country's political community. Modern democracies have faced profound debates over immigration, especially how manypeople to admit to the country and what rights to confer on immigrants who are not citizens. Citizenship and Immigration, one of the titles in the Foundations of Democracy series, examines what it means to be a citizen in a democracy.