Foto: © Anke Illing
Montag, 23. Januar 2006
A new citizen
urmila, 17:59h
Exactly 31 years back the German state aknowledged me as one of its subjects.
I was born in Germany already a few years earlier. But being the daughter of an 'Indian' father, the 'German' mother did not pass on her citizenship to me. The ius sanguinis applied only to paternal blood.
In the year 1975 the German state was forced to change this discriminating - against 'German' women - legislation, I suddenly had 'German' blood in me and was issued the corresponding passport.
Somehow so far I paid not enough tribute to this important day, my birthday as a 'German'. I want to change this now. Especially as all of Germany talks at the moment about who should (nobody really knows) and who should not (definitely the Muslims) get the German citizenship. And I do not want to seem ungrateful.
More on the topic in my M.A. dissertation on urmila.de. I have to add that many years have passed since I finished my M.A. It is not quite the newest research.
I was born in Germany already a few years earlier. But being the daughter of an 'Indian' father, the 'German' mother did not pass on her citizenship to me. The ius sanguinis applied only to paternal blood.
In the year 1975 the German state was forced to change this discriminating - against 'German' women - legislation, I suddenly had 'German' blood in me and was issued the corresponding passport.
Somehow so far I paid not enough tribute to this important day, my birthday as a 'German'. I want to change this now. Especially as all of Germany talks at the moment about who should (nobody really knows) and who should not (definitely the Muslims) get the German citizenship. And I do not want to seem ungrateful.
More on the topic in my M.A. dissertation on urmila.de. I have to add that many years have passed since I finished my M.A. It is not quite the newest research.
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