Myanmar government should give citizenship to the immigration.

 By Thang Mawi

 

When I survey Kantkaw students whether Myanmar government should give citizenship to the immigrants, as the result, most of students answer “should not”. Like wise, most of Myanmar people can not accept this case/issue. Most of reasons are the beliefs that it will cause social, religious and culture conflicts or mixed culture.  However if we think thoroughly this case, we can see a lot of facts Myanmar government should give.  In fact of, Myanmar people include all ethnics minorities are the generation of immigration. Other way we can define as all of us are connected with immigration. Thus Myanmar government should give citizenship to them

Now I would like to discuss a bout that they are given citizenship

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Migration is human nature and it will be happen till the end of the world. Whatever government can never ban this process and it’s impossible to be ignoring in this case. Actually, there is no nationality which didn’t come from migration. According to Myanmar History, Chin and Kachin came from Tibetan,  Kaya came from China, Kayin  came from  Mongolia and, they settled here to survive and leave their country or land and, most of Myanmar citizens are also the generation of immigration. So if immigrations are not given by the Myanmar government, it is injustices.

Immigrations can not bring social and religious conflicts. Most of people think it support to cause social and religious conflicts in the future. The root of that problem is not the generation of immigration, but this is the bad policy concerned with migration of the local government. It may be the government’s ignorance in this case, so later or in next generations, the government had to face a lot of problems. Actually the government needs to make preparations in case of migration such as policy, their right and, they need in order to see in the future. If the government doesn’t give citizenship (may be banning), it is not good solution for them, because they can not totally stop it. The best solution for future is that the government has to give citizenship to them and makes law related with migration.

It is human right and also humanity. As democratic country, immigration should be given citizenship because the concept of democracy based on humanity and human right. It seems respecting and keeping human right and humanity. If in a country, there are a lot of free places to live people and, but a few free places in another country, it can not be fair, because in another country, many people face many problem to live concerned with places, they need new places, but if they are refused  for new places, it is injustice. For example, Hitler announced to the American that the war, his message is related with population problem; American possess a lot of free lands, but the population was not high. However In Germany, the population rate is too high, the land was not enough to live freely .Thus Hitler said that it was not fair.

Now I would like to argue that the proposal of culture conflicts. I think that most of people falsely understand that the concept of culture. Culture can be divided into two kinds and they are Civilization and Tradition. What is Civilization? Civilization means the culture that always change depend on mainstream. How a bout Tradition? Tradition means the culture that can not change because of mainstream. So we need to understand clearly in this concept. Our civilization will change or (mixed with other culture) because of migration. And we have to build Integration; this means we have to attempt in order to combine different culture from different migration. Actually culture is the things that must be changed regularly based on mainstream. For example, after World War II, economics growth was fastest in Japan. In that case, Japan made changes concerned with culture.

The other point is the immigration is like the raw materials in implementing a project to develop a country. It means that there are a lot of different technician and expert from different field. So the interest is that the local government will get a lot of technology and ideas from them and, thus they help to develop a country.

In conclusion, Myanmar Citizenship Law which was made in 1982 is the only people who settled before 1823 was recognized or confirmed as citizenship. Actually the target of this law intend to the people who came after Myanmar was occupied by British. Concerned with this case, Dr. Min

Zaw Oo stated in the Voice Weekly Journal “1982 citizenship law is not match with the present Myanmar political reforms. Especially we have to delete the fact that have to settle before 1823 and, this can not be practical reform. Myanmar’s Democracy way may falsely run in the future.” Since it matches with the democracy concept and system, and we keep the humanity and the human right, and concerned with culture, we have to accept the Integration. We can say that the practical action is that Myanmar government

which is running to the democracy should give the citizenship to the immigration.