Birthplace-based citizenship created arbitrariness and legal contradiction with Muslim personal status

Evidence

But whatever I am has its source back there in Bacon County, from which I left when I was seventeen years old to join the Marine Corps, and to which I never returned to live. — Crews, Harry, A childhood the biography of a place, 44 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Citizenship laws made assimilation a virtual act of apostasy for Algerian Muslims; A person’s identity is deeply tied to their birthplace. — Crews, Harry, A childhood the biography of a place, 44; India’s citizenship laws make Indian nationality synonymous with Hindu identity (+1 more)

Related

• The popular model treats cultural identity as fixed by birth and impermeable to migration (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• A person’s identity is deeply tied to their birthplace. #corroborates (0.60) — Crews, Harry, A childhood the biography of a place, 44