descentdraft
/dɪˈsentˌdrɑːft/nounVerified NewA military-service obligation attached to citizenship by descent, which shapes whether emigrants can afford to visit.
Families plan holidays around exemption letters, and sons of the diaspora learn that a passport can be a summons. Ancestry, marketed as belonging, arrives with an enlistment date attached.
Etym. — descent + draft: the conscription office as an unexpected heirloom.
Rel. — bloodlinerush · grandfatherrefuge
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