A passport can inform which government recognizes us on paper. But it doesn’t tell us what holds the nation together, what binds disparate strangers into a people.

The narrow, legal answer is straightforward: An American is a citizen of the United States, born or naturalized. That ...

After winning round one, President Trump wants the justices to tee up a final showdown on birthright citizenship.

Several African countries have offered national identity to these descendants.

Current citizenship laws have a narrow concept of nationhood and fail to acknowledge Indigenous ways of understanding ...

As President Trump reshapes immigration and the nation’s relationship with immigrants, some naturalized citizens are wondering if the country they made a commitment to when they took the oath of ...