GLOBALISATION AND THE CHANGING NATURE OF CITIZENSHIP

Globalisation and the Changing Nature of Citizenship



Globalisation and the Changing Nature of Citizenship

Introduction

The debate on globalisation looks likely long, especially since it is defined as a new phenomenon whose dimensions cannot be captured through historical experience. Without wanting to get to the bottom of this discussion, it is important to clarify that a differentiated view on the nature of this phenomenon and essentially a comparative diachronic order is not without echo in the approach of particular concepts such as identity and the concept of citizenship.

Now, there is a question, what do we mean by the idea of "global citizenship"? How to interpret this idea, increasingly to educate ourselves as citizens committed locally but in a global perspective? We can start from an indisputable fact, absolutely incorporated into our daily life. Every morning when we get up, turn off an alarm clock, we do not miss our breakfast coffee and fruit; showering with Algerian gas-heated water, go to work on a bus, in the seat next to an Arab person with us in America and some countries of Eastern Europe; we passed a school where children play and study from different backgrounds. What's behind all this? Well, the absolute certainty of living in one and the same world is interdependent.

Being the inhabitants of the land of the XXI century, we definitely have minds, citizens who must develop a sense of identity and belonging to a supranational world where they shared duties, rights and responsibilities. Already, we cannot forget who we are and we are part of a world of men and women, children who have the same right as us to be happy, develop their capacity to love, to cultivate their own cultural, political, religious, ethnic - that have the same right to be respected in their forms and systems of production, organizational, social and community functioning.

Discussion

We belong to the same global community and it is the responsibility of us all (not just the national governments and supranational citizenship but also the organised third sector) to safeguard the future of new generations through the promotion, more dynamic- information, education and development of values, patterns of social behaviour and coping skills injustices, inequities and imbalances of all types, existing in many parts of planet. Definitely, the economy, politics, science and technology, security and crime, health and disease control, etc. are now global and can only be addressed globally.

Citizenship is a status or social and legal recognition for a person who has rights and duties by membership in a community which is often territorial and cultural base. The citizens are equal among themselves and they can be distinguished between first citizen and second citizen etc. In the same territory, subject to the same laws, everyone must have equal rights. The public accepts the difference, not inequality. Living in the city requires a minimum of common guidelines and tolerance for diversity. Without equality, at least formally, this commitment is not ...