In most facets of life we want our governments and our societies to help overcome such accidents. Many countries take pride in banning employers from discriminating among workers on the basis of characteristics we can’t change: whether we’re male or female, young or old, gay or straight, black or white. But when it comes to your citizenship, that’s an accident of birth that we expect governments to preserve, not erase. Yet the passport is a tool designed to ensure that a certain kind of discrimination takes place: discrimination on the grounds of nationality.
