... citizenship, however with historic development rights have come to be associated with citizenship. Marshall identifies three types of rights that he argues to be associated with citizenship in modern democracies. He calls them civil rights, social rights and political rights. To T.H. Marshall civil rights are rights of citizenship necessary for personal freedom and liberty and include 'liberty of the person, freedom of speech, thought and faith, the right to own property and to conclude valid contracts, and the right to justice' (p. 10). In the economic sphere, Marshall considered it a basic civil right to be able to follow the occupation of one's choice at the place of one's choice, subject only to legitimate restrictions. Citizenship in the modern democracy is based on universal suffrage and equality before the law (Barbalet 1988). Socio-economic rights have also been reflected in the UN Declaration of Human Rights, as fundamental human rights. ...

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