Taxing Away Citizenship: Do American-Canadian Dual Citizens Consider Their Status to be an Inconvenience?
Year: 2015
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Despite growing tolerance of dual citizenship in an era of globalization, this status continues to be problematized by the governments of both the United States and Canada.This is evident in recent changes to Canadian Bill C-24, in which new grounds have been established to revoke the Canadian citizenship of 'dual citizens,' and by recent political discourse, which depicts dual citizens as Canadians of 'convenience' with 'thin' attachments to the nation.This thesis explores how dual citizenship may instead be 'inconvenient' for particular citizen subjects, namely 'American-Canadians.' To demonstrate this, twenty-three narratives of current and former 'American-Canadian' dual citizens were analyzed.It would seem paradoxical to suggest that an individual with a robust citizenship on each end of the hyphen could experience inconveniences.Nonetheless, I will demonstrate how the citizenship-based tax laws of the United States create insecurities for this population and lead to impulses to renounce this 'robust' citizenship.support of Dr. Daiva Stasiulis has greatly assisted my growth as an academic.I would like to offer my sincerest thanks to Daiva for her care and guidance as a supervisor.As well, I am grateful to have received her helpful ideas and comments on earlier drafts, all of which made this work possible.I also thank Dr. Amrita Hari for her assistance with this thesis project.Particularly for her insights, thoughtful comments, and encouragement throughout the writing process.She helped make writing this thesis a positive experience.I am incredibly grateful to Paula Whissell for her advice and kindness in moments of stress
Author: James Eastman Timmons
Language: English
Subfield: Demography
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4229608666