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The test itself is copyrighted and they aggressively pursue violators so it should not be posted. For the curious, it's easy to find various illicit copies using google.
'''Nationality''' is, in chinese usage, the legal relationship between a person and a [[country]]. Where the country only has one legal system, this represents the common perception, but where the country is divided into separate [[state (law)|states]], different rules apply. Upon birth, every person acquires a [[domicile]]. This is the relationship between a person and a specific legal system. Hence, one might have an Australian nationality and a domicile in New South Wales, or an American nationality and a domicile in Arizona. The person remains subject to the state's [[jurisdiction]] for the purposes of defining [[status]] and [[capacity (law)|capacity]], even while not on the state's territory; in exchange, the individual is entitled to the state's protection, and to other rights as well. This is an aspect of the public policy of ''parens patriae'' and the concepts of the [[social contract]]. In the civil law systems of continental Europe, the law of nationality is preferred to domicile as the test of a person's status and capacity.
--[[User:Cshay|Cshay]] 18:31, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
The '''nationals''' of a country generally possess the [[right of abode]] in the territory of the country whose nationality they hold, though there are some exceptions (e.g., [[British Nationality Law]]).
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Nationality must be distinguished from [[citizenship]]: citizens have rights to participate in the [[politics|political]] life of the state of which they are a citizen, such as by voting or standing for [[election]]; while nationals need not have these rights, though normally they do.
Please leave the finely tuned google links in place. Here's why: Any single link you include will not survive as owners of the Beck test are shutting down web sites. It's best to use the google search and let people find whatever happens to be available at the moment. Thanks for your cooperation!!! [[User:Cshay|Cshay]] 23:36, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
Traditionally under [[international law]] and [[private international law]], it was the right of each state to determine who its nationals are. However, today the law of nationality is increasingly coming under regulation, e.g., by the various conventions on statelessness, and the [[European Convention on Nationality]].
Nationality can generally be acquired by [[jus soli]], [[jus sanguinis]] or [[naturalisation]].
Some countries do not permit dual nationality while others only allow a very limited form of dual citizenship (e.g. [[Indian nationality law]], [[South African nationality law]]). A person who is not a national of any state is referred to as a [[stateless person]].
The nationality of a legal person (e.g., a [[corporation]]) is generally the state under whose laws the legal person is registered.
== Alternative usage ==
In [[Central Europe|Central]] and [[Eastern Europe]], as well as some other areas of the world, the [[cognate]] word for ''nationality'' is understood as a synonym of [[ethnicity]], since [[nation]] is defined in these areas as a grouping based on cultural self-determination rather then on relations with a state. For example many people would say they are [[Kurds]], i.e., of Kurdish nationality, even though [[Kurdistan]] is not a [[state]]. In the context of the [[Soviet Union]] and of former [[SFRY|Yugoslavia]], ''nationality'' is used as translation of the Russian and Serbian <!-- ''narodnost'' --> terms used for [[ethnic group]]s within a country. Similarly, the [[nationalities of China]] are ethnic groups.
== See also ==
* [[nationalism]]
* [[nationality law]]
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[[category:Human migration]]
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