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In reply to the discussion: How did you get here? [View all]loyalsister
(13,390 posts)84. citizenship complications...
One argument for the ERA that I heard an advocate make was that it would benefit men re: citizenship of their children born overseas. If they weren't married to the woman, the child had to be naturalized. But that wasn't the case for women. Your situation was less complicated but still highlights the difference.
Obviously there is no way to seriously cast doubt on citizenship of a child born to an American woman. When it is doubted because of gender it is discrimination. I know a woman whose mother was French and her father was a soldier in WWII. She was not automatically recognized as a citizen because her parents weren't married when she was born.
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Oh, sure, but that's my paternal great-great-etc. grandfather who first came here
Recursion
Feb 2013
#24
My grandmother and mother crossed the border from Canada to steal cleaning jobs.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Feb 2013
#7
My maternal relatives came here as indentured servants. It seems America has written them out
Romulox
Feb 2013
#19
Late 19th century--Mother's side: French/German Father's side: Irish/German
ScreamingMeemie
Feb 2013
#20
Well, the Bay Colony gave my 11th grt grandfather land in Lynne, MA that he thought was crap...
HereSince1628
Feb 2013
#22
when my daughter studied theatre in Dublin her Irish friends said she looked so Irish!
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#73
Interesting how there is considerable evidence of positive effects of knowing more than one language
loyalsister
Feb 2013
#49
My paternal grandfather came from what was then Austria-Hungary in 1914 at 13 years old
independentpiney
Feb 2013
#48
Slave ship, Immigration from Greece (just guessing/it was rape), and as a WWII war bride
tblue
Feb 2013
#58
Asian land bridge eons ago along with some French Canadian Irish in the 1800's.
catbyte
Feb 2013
#86