ABSTRACT
In world, acknowledging citizenship is made much more significant with the number of refugees from wars and environmental disasters, immigrants and migrants seeking a better quality of life, asylum seekers escaping from political persecution and violence, and other displaced people. Liberal theory is built on the assumption that the concept of citizen is both universal and neutral. The dominant paradigm and normative discourse about citizenship in the United States, and Western society, historically considers the white-propertied heterosexual, Christian male as the norm and backgrounds these assumptions, thus building the claim of universality gender neutral citizen on a questionable foundation. In the United States, have birthright citizenship—by virtue of being native born, born on the nation’s soil—jus soli, the Latin for right of soil—born of a mother who is a American, or being legally recognized as having been naturalized.
