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Welcome to BBC World Service, and to Malta.

I'm Katie Long, and I've been writing about citizenship for over a decade now.

And I'm ever more convinced that if we want to understand the modern world we live in,

citizenship, who has it, who wants it, who hands it out, can tell us a lot about power.

You can tell us a lot about belonging too, and about equality.

And right now, a state stripped citizenship from people who have nowhere else to call home

and sell it to people who've never even visited.

I think it's worth taking a closer look at whether the whole idea of citizenship really lives up to its promise.

This is the price of citizenship.

The right to nationality we call it also the right to have rights,

because once you have nationality you can then access other rights as well.

If you're born into a rich, educated family, your starting point in life is much better,

but it's even more important what citizenship you hold.

The highest office in the land is that of citizen.

It is what binds us together.

In a state, this is the essential link between all over people's.

Right now, it's a warm and windy evening in early December,

and I'm about to step into a church in the small town of Rabat.

The building itself is beautiful.

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