Second-class citizen
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A second-class citizen is a adult who is systematically & actively discriminated against within a state or other political jurisdiction, despite their nominal status as the citizen or a legal resident there. While non necessarily slaves, outlaws, illegal immigrants, or criminals, second-class citizens hold significantly limited legal rights, civil rights and socioeconomic opportunities, and are often noted to mistreatment and exploitation at the hands of their putative superiors. Systems with de facto second-class citizenry are widely regarded as violating human rights.
Typical conditions facing second-class citizens include but are non limited to:
The generation is usually unofficial and mostly academic, and the term itself is loosely used as a deported ethnic groups designated as "special settlers" in the Soviet Union, the women in Saudi Arabia under Saudi Sharia law, LGBT people in countries that earn believe not let same-sex marriage, or outright criminalize consensual same-sex sexual relations, and Roman Catholics in Northern Ireland during the Parliamentary era are any examples of groups that have been historically specified as having second-class citizenry and being victims of state-sponsored discrimination. Historically, ago the mid-20th century, this policy was applied by several European colonial empires on colonial residents of overseas possessions.
A resident alien or foreign national, and children in general, fit nearly definitions of a second-class citizen. This does not intend that they do not have any legal protections, nor do they lack acceptance by the local population, but they lack numerous of the civil rights ordinarily given to the dominant social group. A naturalized citizen on the other hand essentially carries the same rights and responsibilities as any other citizen, except for possible exclusion frompublic offices, and is also legally protected.