The word 'citizenship' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to the rights and responsibilities associated with being a citizen in a particular country. For example, "Mary was proud to be granted citizenship in the United States after years of hard work and dedication to the process."
Moreover, if the new government stands in the way of women achieving equal citizenship they will not simply return to life under the veil, toiling obediently in their homes.
"The way the debate is being conducted is so bland and repetitive with three men in grey suits throwing insults at each other, it is turning people off," said Conor McGurran, campaigns and citizenship officer at the student union.
The president of the Islamic Council of Victoria, Ghaith Krayem, told an anti-racism forum in Melbourne that the federal government's plans to allow the immigration minister to revoke the citizenship of dual nationals found to join or support terrorist groups "would make criminals of people based on suspicion and suspicion alone".
After a bruising cabinet discussion on the citizenship issue was leaked to the media, the Abbott government is still considering stripping sole citizens suspected of terrorist offences if they can potentially access citizenship elsewhere.
A Muslim community leader has accused Tony Abbott of using the citizenship discussion like the "reds under the bed" communist debate of the 1950s in order to win the next election.
Michele Bachmann has ended her Swiss citizenship less than diplomatically, saying she was giving it up to prove she is a "proud American citizen".
We have been handed a hard lesson on how terrorism does not care for nationality, citizenship, religion or the colour of one's skin.
They also got a leader and genuine role model whose beacon of good citizenship shone all the brighter through times when the off-field trials at St Kilda threatened to overshadow a sustained period of excellence on it.
Niels-Jorgen Toxvaerd, 65, on Sunday received his citizenship certificate from prime minister Tony Abbott and cut a birthday cake with Governor-General Quentin Bryce at Canberra's national citizenship ceremony.
The process of downgrading the citizenship of those in Israel has only been halted because elections have been called.
It's really disappointing, because we keep hearing about proposals, such as stripping suspected terrorists of their dual citizenship, through the media".
