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Statelessness
in a Global World, Two Incidents
CRISIS IN THE BALKANS: THE REFUGEES For Kosovars, Losing Homes Means Losing All Wealth By John Kifner LIFETIME OF WAR FOR KOSOVAR REFUGEE By Greg Myre Read More |
Instructional Suggestions Place students
into several groups and assign each a fitious Mr. or Ms. X, and have
them brainstorm all of the ways in they might strip that person of
their identi ty. Remind them of the need to consider all aspects of
their lives: personal, professional, recreational, etc. After the
groups have worked for twenty minutes debrief the groups and construct
a master list on an overhead or chalkboard. Have the students then
begin to suggest ways in which one would need to guard against such
an event in their own situation... |
READING I: Many immigrants arrive in the USA without birth, marriage and divorce certificates. These identity documents along with school andchurch records and diplomas have been lost or destroyed during wartime. The Khmer Rouge government in Cambodia, for example, wiped out the paper identities of millions of Cambodians, and now the same is happening in Kosovo as government and family records and homes are burned... |
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PREADING
II: SUBJECT: RESPONSE
TO -Re: What legal citizenship do Kosovo Albanians have? In Reply to:
RESPONSE TO -Re: What legal citizenship do Kosovo Albanians have? posted
by TAHARQA on April 06, 1999 at 22:03 Excuse my ignorance but I hope
there's somebody who can tell me (honestly) what is printed on ID papers
of Kosovo Albanians (passport, ID card or similar) - before confiscation
by the authorities... |
READING
III: "Central
to the construction of a right wing nationalism is a project of defending
national identity through an appeal to a common culture that displaces
any notion of national identity based upon a pluralized notion of culture
with its multiple literacies, identities, and histories and erases histories
of oppression and struggle for the working class and minorities." |
READING
IV: "Can there
be any justification for nationalism at this stage in the twentieth
century? Isn't the very idea just ill-disguised hate and therefore irredeemably
tainted? Nationalism has been the reason for the citizens of pretty
well every country either to have suffered oppression or to have inflicted
it on others, and only an optimist would think that the world has seen
the last of the evils perpetrated in its name." |
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