Constitution and citizenship

Constitution
The process of writing a constitution has started. There is something to build from. It took 7 years in USA to create a constitution after the declaration of independence. We are in much better shape.

We hope that the work on the constitution will make it possible to create a society where we can safeguard an efficient manner in which we administer Kalaallit Nunaat, while we turn it into an advantage that we are a small country with few citizens, and where our democratic processes and engagement of citizens can be executed across the artificial divides created by party politics. In a country as ours, where we are so few, the individual simply has greater responsibility to act with the society in mind.

Citizens
One of the big questions are: Who will become a citizen of Kalaallit Nunaat? How do we define it?

Read our draft about citizenship here.

The discussions about "who is a real Kalaaleq?" is known to spawn an eternal debate about what identifies identity (language, genetics and so on). We can use endless debates for anything, so by focusing on what we wish to use it for, then an obvious answer is to define "who can become a citizen of an independent Kalaallit Nunaat, and who can get permanent residence, and these two are not the same thing.

Our thoughts on this are that we wish to see a humane and inclusive system, even if this means that a very few may exploit this system. We are a very small nation and we have a lot of room, and there will be situations where our laws must take into consideration that people from abroad have found their way to our country.

As a starting point we wish to see that all people who have an affiliation with Kalaallit Nunaat will be granted citizenship. Children born abroad by parents not born in Kalaallit Nunaat can be granted citizenship, even if their grandparents are also not born in Kalaallit Nunaat, provided that just one of these children's grandparents parents are born here (by people also born in Kalaallit Nunaat). In this way we are able to bring those home who has seen their roots eroded by generations of colonization.

Furthermore we have made suggestions handle the transitional issues and described why do do not wish to see dual nationality in Kalaallit Nunaat. Read more here.

Who is Inuit Nutaat?

We are ordinary citizens in Kalaallit Nunaat and kalaallit in other parts of the world who share a burning desire for, and work for Greenland as an independent nation, with a population that takes responsibity for ourselves as free and independent people.

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