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5 10 15 20 25 30 16 I am the same person, but I don’t exactly know what it means.” Emina answered. She was somehow desperate – we all saw tears in her eyes, when she said: “And I do not want to leave – my par- ents want to leave to Switzerland. My father got a job there and now we have to move.” We did not know what to say. Our teacher was somehow irritated, but then she said: “It is just your citizenship that has changed. Aren’t you still the same person, Emina?” Now we all looked around. “What does that mean?” asked Robert. “Yes, what does citizenship mean?” continued Lara. Now our teacher started to talk again very slowly: “It is really very difficult, but I will try to tell you. There are many different countries and the rules and laws are different in each country.” “Well, what is she talking about?” I thought to myself. But then I listened because it seemed to be important. “Well,” our teacher continued, “even if you live in one country for a long time, that doesn’t mean you have citizenship in that country. But you need it if you want to get a passport from that country. You might all know you have to have a pass- port, or some papers of identity, to travel from one country to another.” “Yes, I know just last week I had to have a photograph tak- en – because my parents told me we will be going to Greece for the summer holidays.” Lara said. “Well, in some countries it is like this: If a child is born there, the child has the right to get that country’s citizenship, but the parents have to ask for it. There is a special office, where they have to go. But in some countries, like in Austria, it is different. Even if a child is born in this country the child has not got the