Nominal citizenship does not guarantee equal substantive rights. [fact]
Linda Bosniak, The Citizen and the Alien: Dilemmas of Contemporary Membership (Princeton University Press, 2008), 30–31. "[Muslim Americans] may now enjoy nominal citizenship status, but their members are, in fact, afforded less in the way of substantive citizenship than others in society" (30).
DEFINE: Distinguishes nominal from substantive citizenship, a key concept for membership theory.
Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 1344